The Cladrastis clade is a monophyletic clade of the flowering plant subfamily Faboideae (or Papilionaceae) that is found in eastern Asia and southern North America.

[2][3][4] It is consistently resolved in molecular phylogenies and is sister to the Meso-Papilionoideae.

[11][12] It is predicted to have diverged from the other legume lineages 47.4±2.6 million years ago (in the Eocene).

This clade is composed of three genera: Cladrastis, the monotypic Pickeringia, and Styphnolobium.

Rudd 1971 but not Dermatophyllum secundiflorum (Ortega) Gandhi & Reveal 2011 or Swartzia simplex Spreng.