Rhynchotropis

Erect perennial herbs with medifixed hairs; rhizome branched, woody. Leaves alternate, unifoliolate, sessile or subsessile, linear or lanceolate, straight; stipules subulate to lanceolate-triangular, small. Inflorescences axillary, 7-15-flowered racemes. Calyx 5-lobed; lobes narrowly triangular, +/- as long as, to longer than tube. Corolla with keel abruptly bent towards middle, rostrate. Stamens diadelphous: filaments of 9 fused, vexillar one free or fused to others at base; anthers with well-developed lacerate-fimbriate appendices at both ends, or apical one reduced to a few stiff hairs. Ovary linear, 3-6-ovulate; style twisted, cymbiform-dilated in lower half and abruptly contracted at base where it is eventually bent through a right angle; stigma oblique, discoid. Pod linear to sublinear, subsessile to shortly stipitate, dehiscent, finely strigose, spreading. Seeds separated by thin transverse partitions.