Tree to 20 m high, crown typically flattened and spreading. Bark grey to yellowish-brown, smooth or rough; young branchlets densely and rather coarsely and persistently rusty- to fulvous-pubescent, inÂdumentum sometimes becoming grey with age. Leaves rusty- to fulvous-pubescent, inÂdumentum sometimes becoming grey with age: petiole 2,4-7 cm long, a large raised gland usually situated immediately above or a short distance above the pulvinus; rhachis (3)5,5-14 cm long, a small rounded gland usually present at or just below the junction of the top pinna pair; pinnae 4-8 pairs; rhachillae (2)3-10 cm long; leaflets (4)6-15 pairs, 7-20 x 4-8(11) mm (in our area), obliquely rhombic-quadrate or -oblong, proximal margin usually ± rounded into the pulvinule basally and not auriculate, midrib diagonal, usually obtuse and mucronate apically, sometimes subacute, upper surface dark green and thinly pubescent, lower surface paler, usually ± appressed-pubescent throughout but especially on midrib and margins. Stipules and bracts at base of peduncles 5-12 x 3-8(11) mm, ovate. Inflorescences globose; peduncles 2,5-4,5(6) cm long, densely rusty- to fulvous-pubescent. Flowers whitish, on pedicels 0,5-1 mm long; bracteoles 5-8 mm long, linear-spathulate to oblanceolate, exceeding the flower-buds, variably persistent and sometimes deciÂduous before the flowers open. Calyx 2,5-5 mm long, fulvo-pubescent. Corolla 6-10 mm long, pubescent, tube 5-8 mm long, lobes 2-3 mm long. Stamens 2-3,2 cm long, united into a narrow tube for most of their length, tube exserted beyond the corolla for 1,3-2,5 cm. Ovary ± 2,5 mm long, glabrous, subsessile. Pods pale brown, (7,5)9-19 X 1,9-3,4 cm (in our area), oblong, valves thin textured, densely and persistently pubescent, not glossy, umbonate over the seeds, p omi-nently venose, margins thickened, longitudiÂnally dehiscent. Seeds 7-9,5 X 6,5-8,5 mm, flattened.
