Sasswood

Unarmed trees. Stipules small, caducous. Leaves 2-pinnate; specialised glands on petiole or rhachis 0. Leaflets alternate. Inflorescence of small flowers in a pedunculate spike-like raceme, usually aggregated into a panicle. Calyx lobes 5, ± connate below. Petals equal, 5. Stamens 10; filaments often alternately long and short. Pod dehiscent, oblong or oblong-elliptic, flattened, woody.

Erythrophleum is a genus of legume in the family Fabaceae. A partial list of species includes:

Erythrophleum africanum Erythrophleum chlorostachys Erythrophleum couminga Baill. Erythrophleum fordii Erythrophleum ivorense Erythrophleum lasianthum Erythrophleum letestui Erythrophleum suaveolens Erythrophleum succirubrum Erythrophleum teysmannii