Faboideae
Filaments all free
Leaves with recurved margins; or, if flat, then paler or hoary underneath Unopened flower heads surrounded by conspicuously imbricate bract-stipules, the inner ones longer than the short pedicels. Keel dark coloured Bract-stipules, when present, not conspicuously imbricate. Flowers either in terminal heads or in the upper axils. Keel not always dark-coloured