Shrub or small tree to 10 m high; trunk to 0,3 m in diam.; crown often irregularly rounded, narrow, branches drooping someÂwhat. Bark dark greyish-brown to blackish, rough; young branchlets pale to dark grey or reddish-brown to purple, often appearing as though whitewashed over a purplish background, flaking minutely, slender, sparingly to densely grey-puberulous or tomentellous, seldom subglabrous. Stipules spinescent, in pairs, 0,5-5,7 cm long, slender, never inflated, straight, greyish-white to reddish-brown; other prickles absent. Leaves usually densely grey-tomentellous, bipinnate but the leaflets so small and laterally comÂpressed that the pinnae resemble single linear crenulate leaflets: petiole 1-5(7) mm long, adaxial gland often absent; rhachis 0,8-5,1(8,2) cm long, with minute reddish glands scattered amongst the grey indumenÂtum, a small yellowish-brown gland often present at the junction of the top 1-6 and the lowest 1-3 pinnae pairs or between each or most pairs; pinnae 6-26 pairs; rhachillae (0,3)0,5-1(1,5) cm long, with minute reddish glands scattered amongst the grey indumenÂtum; leafle
