Xerocladia

Shrublets with many rigid, somewhat zigzag branches, with recurved, spinescent stipules. Leaves few, small, bipinnate, with pinnae 1-2-jugate; leaflets. small, few-jugate. Flowers bisexual, sessile, in axillary, shortly pedunculate heads. Calyx campanulate, with 5 lobes longer than tube. Petals 5, valvate, linear, free almost to base. Stamens 10, free, 5 opposite petals short, 5 alternating with petals longer but scarcely exceeding petals; anthers with minute, terminal, deciduous gland apically. Ovary subsessile, 1(2)-ovuled, villous; style filiform, somewhat thickened above, with truncate stigma. Pod broadly falcate-ovate or semiorbicular, plano-compressed, 1-seeded, with lower suture arched and winged. Seed compressed-ovoid, smooth.