Brya P. Browne

Shrubs or small trees, erect, prickly, deciduous. Stipules spinescent and persistent, or inconspicuous and caduceus. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets 1-many, but usually trifoliate, fascicled or clustered. Inflorescence cymes of fascicles, few flowered, short axillary or terminal; bracts or bracteoles small and persistent. Flowers usually yellow; calyx lobes sub-equal or lower lobe longer; keel incurved, blunt; wings falcate-oblong. Fruit pods, sessile or shortly stalked, with 1-2 broad, flat indehiscent joints; upper joint usually sterile, lower suture curved. Seeds reniform.

Worldwide: 12 species from the West Indies and especially Cuba

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.