Xeroderris

Deciduous trees; slash producing blood-red resinous exudate. Leaves imparipinnate; stipules present, caducous; stipels almost always 0. Flowers white, in lateral, spreading panicles, a number together from young shoots which grow out into leafy branches; bracts and bracteoles small, caducous. Calyx campanulate, shortly 5-lobed, the upper 2 obscure. Petals: vexillum shortly clawed, scarcely callused, suborbicular to oblate; wings oblong-obovate; keel with elliptic-falcate blades, lightly coherent along lower side. Stamens diadelphous, with vexillary stamens free; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary sessile, few-ovuled; style curved, attenuate, with a small, incurved stigma. Pod indehiscent, compressed, margined with a wing on each side; valves coherent between seeds. Seeds oblong-reniform. x= 12 (1 report).