32; see text Brachystegia is a genus of tree of the subfamily Detarioideae that is native to tropical Africa.

[2] Hybridisation between the species occurs and taxa show considerable variation in leaflet size, shape and number, making identification difficult.

New leaves show a great range of red colours when immature, later turning to various shades of green.

Habitats include seasonally dry forest, woodland, wooded grassland and bushland, and lowland tropical rain forest, often along rivers, the margins of wetlands, and on upland plateaus.

One species grows in the Zanzibar–Inhambane coastal forests of eastern Mozambique.