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Description: Shrubs with lignified thorns derived from lateral branches.

Leaves alternate, pinnately 3-foliolate; stipules striate, scarious; stipellate.

Inflorescences axillary racemes; bracts simple. Calyx tube short, campanulate, upper 2 teeth ± fused. Standard orbicular to broadly obovate, clawed; wings oblong, joined to the middle of the keel; keel obtuse. Stamens diadelphous; anthers uniform. Ovary with c. 2 ovules; style inflexed or incurved.

Pod transversely jointed, separating into 1-seeded articles; articles 2–7, usually indehiscent; seeds with a small rim aril.

Habit Photo A.E. Orme

Flower Photo A.E. Orme

Fruit Photo A.E. Orme

Distribution and occurrence: World: 1 species. Australia: 1 species, endemic to New South Wales.

Previously included in the genus Desmodium, but molecular data have demonstrated that this genus needs to be greatly divided.