Normandiodendron

Trees or shrubs. Leaves paripinnate with 2-4 pairs of usually opposite, elliptic to lanceolate, asymmetric, entire leaflets. Inflorescences short, dense racemes, axillary or on old wood, solitary or 2 or 3 together; bracts and bracteoles ovate, short, caducous. Calyx tubular, with 4 broad, imbricate lobes, reflexed in open flower. Petals 5, subequal. Stamens 10; filaments long-exserted, somewhat unequal, sometimes slightly fused at base. Ovary stipitate with stipe fused with calyx tube up to rim; ovules 4 or 5. Pod elliptic to oblong, flattened, smooth, lightly veined.