genus Brachystegia

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1.genus Brachystegia - small genus of tropical African timber trees having pale golden heartwood uniformly striped with dark brown or black:Brachystegiarosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plantsCaesalpinioideae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae - alternative name in some classification systems for the family CaesalpiniaceaeBrachystegia speciformis, msasa - small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers