Deciduous tree; leaf with a pair of sessile leaflets; pod compressed, kidney-shaped, indehiscent, with valves thin leathery, sticky-glandular.
Derivation of name: Colophospermum: resin-seed, referring to the resinous glands on the seed
Worldwide: 1 species, in Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: 1 taxon.