Entada elephantina, commonly known as the eland's wattle or elephant's root, is a subshrub in the mimosoid clade of legumes.

They produce unbranched and unarmed aerial stems of less than a metre tall.

[3] Entada burkei has similar aerial parts, but its seeds are consistently smaller than those of E.

[3][4] Mature specimens of E. burkei especially, produce their flowering racemes on the branched stems, so that the pods appear in conspicuous positions some distance above ground.

Seed shape varies considerably in E. burkei, from elliptic to nearly quadrate if they are tightly compacted and laterally compressed in their pods.