Platysepalum Welw. ex Baker

Small trees, shrubs or lianes. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets in 2 or more pairs, opposite, stipellate; stipules very small, falling early. Inflorescences paniculate, axillary, the branches pseudoracemose, many-flowered; bracteoles large, oblong, sometimes persistent. Calyx tube campanulate; upper pair of teeth joined to form a very broad emarginate hood as large as the standard; lower 3 teeth narrowly lanceolate. Standard oblate and emarginate to obcordate, shortly clawed, glabrous. Ovary sessile, pubescent, 5–7-ovuled. Fruit pod, dehiscent, woody, compressed, 3–5-seeded. Seeds, discoid or compressed-oblong.

Worldwide: 12 species in tropical Africa.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.