Lonchocarpus

Trees or rarely strong, woody climbers. Leaves imparipinnate, occasionally pinnately 3-foliolate. Flowers in racemes or panicles or sometimes fascicled, or 2-nate, bracteate; bracteoles small, usually caducous. Calyx sometimes villous, with campanulate tube; lobes 5, shorter than tube with 2 upper lobes connate almost to tips. Petals: vexillum ovate, obovate or suborbicular, cuneately clawed, sometimes with 2 appendages above claw, often silky; wings oblique or falcate, clawed, eared, slightly adnate to keel above claw; keel suberect or curved, obtuse, eared, clawed, sometimes gibbous. Stamens monadelphous, with vexillary stamen free at base and connate above, rarely entirely free; anthers uniform. Ovary +/- stalked, 2-many-ovuled, frequently hairy; style incurved, with small, terminal, capitate stigma. Pod oblong or linear-oblong, flat, membranous or leathery, indehiscent, with terminal style scar; sutures not winged, sometimes upper laterally dilated. Seeds 1 or 2, rarely many, compressed, reniform or suborbicular. x= 11 ( polyploidy).