Kotschya

Herbs, undershrubs, or shrubs, sometimes villous. Leaves impari- or paripinnate; leaflets alternate, asymmetric at base; stipules membranous or scarious, persistent; stipels 0. Flowers usually in axillary racemes, rarely solitary, bracteate. Calyx scarious, deeply 5-lobed, 2-lipped, upper lip entire or emarginate, lower lip entire to 3-fid. Petals: vexillum obovate or rounded, often emarginate, sometimes adnate to staminal tube, usually sessile; wings shortly clawed; keel incurved or straight, sometimes eared, clawed. Stamens monadelphous; tube split above, eventually on 2 sides; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stalked, 2-many-ovuled, usually submoniliform, sometimes with a cupular disc at base; style inflexed, glabrous, with small, terminal stigma. Pod within calyx, segmented, with segments at length separating. Seeds reniform. x= 14 (1 report).