Pseudovigna

Trailing or climbing perennial herbs; stems densely covered in ferruginous hispid hairs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; leaflets lobed, with dense appressed silvery hairs on undersurface; stipules and stipels present. Inflorescences 2-8-flowered axillary pseudoracemes. Calyx 5-lobed, upper pair partly connate, covered in ferruginous hispid hairs. Corolla glabrous; petals clawed; standard obovate to broadly obovate, auriculate, without appendages. Stamens : vexillary stamen free or joined to others at base; anthers +/- uniform. Ovary shortly stipitate to subsessile, oblong, hairy, 3-ovuled; style glabrous, slender, geniculate, flattened proximal to bend, terete distally; stigma terminal, fringed with hairs. Pod oblong, compressed, septate, dehiscent, covered in dark brown hairs, 1-3-seeded. Seeds black, oblong to reniform; aril poorly developed, funicle remnant persistent.