Faidherbia

Tall trees with rounded crown and spreading branches; stipules spinescent, in pairs, straight or slightly curved, greenish white with reddish brown tips when young. Leaves with adaxial gland 0; rachis subglabrous or puberulous, with a single conspicuous gland at junction of each of 2-10 pairs of pinnae; leaflets grey-green, 6-23 pairs per pinna, linear or linear-oblong to slightly ovate-oblong, apex rounded or subacute or mucronate. Inflorescence spicate, usually singly in axil of a leaf. Flowers bisexual, yellowish white to pale cream-coloured, sessile or minutely pedicellate. Calyx campanulate, 4- or 5-lobed or -toothed, glabrous to pubescent. Corolla 4- or 5-lobed, often a delicate pink inside basally, lobes divided almost to base, glabrous to pubescent. Stamens many; filaments shortly united into a tube at base; anthers eglandular. Ovary shortly stipitate, pilose; style glabrous or subglabrous. Pod bright orange to reddish brown, falcate or curled into a circular coil or variously twisted, indehiscent, thick, glabrous or very rarely puberulous. Seeds light to dark brown, elliptic-lenticular.