Shrubs or herbs, generally pubescent, hairs medifixed appressed, sometimes mixed with basifixed hairs. Leaves pinnate or imparipinnate or palmately trifoliolate or unifoliolate or simple; leaflets entire; stipules present. Inflorescence an axillary raceme or spike or solitary axillary. Bract generally caducous, bracteoles absent. Calyx lobes or teeth subequal or lowermost longer. Vexillum sessile or clawed. Wing slightly cohering with the keel. Keel gibbous on each side and often spurred. Stamens 9+1, diadelphous, anthers uniform, apiculate. Ovary with numerous or 1 to 2 ovules, style glabrous, stigma capitate, often penicillate. Fruit linear or globose, terete, 4-3-seeded or compressed; septate between the seeds. Seeds globose to cylindric, truncate, compressed or quadrate.