Genus | Aspect Ratio | Bean Pod Shape | Fruit Wing | Wing Pattern | Seed Shape | Number of Seeds | Sutures | Whether Cracking | |
Mimosa Genus | 5:1 | Long oval or linear | Wingless or winged | Yes | Oval or round | Multiple | Wavy | Cracking | |
Bauhinia Genus | 6:1 | Narrowly elliptical, lanceolate linear | Narrow wings on one side of the ventral suture | Longitudinal parallelism | Small, oval, flat | 2 to many pills | Straight | No cracking or splitting | |
Caesalpinia Genus | 4:1 | Ovate, oblong or lanceolate, sometimes falcate and curved, flattened or swollen | Wingless or winged | Parallel | Seeds ovoid to globose | Multiple | Straight | No cracking or splitting | |
Dalbergia Genus | 3:1 | Flattened, strap-shaped or oblong, seed pods often reticulate in epidermal part, base often contracted into a longer stalk | Two Wings | No | Elliptical, oblong kidney-shaped | 1 - 3 pills | Flatter or curved | No Cracking | |
Current Specimens | 4:1 | Long oval | Swelling along the ventral suture, double wing | not obvious | Spherical | 6 pills | nearly flat and straight | Cracking | |