Tree to 9 m high branching from near the base, "broom-like", crown flattened and spreading or rounded; trunk to 0,5 m in diam. Bark olive- or yellowish- to reddish-brown or purplish-black and smooth when young, grey-brown to black, rough and fissured in mature trees; young branchlets olive-or reddish-brown, with numerous somewhat transversely elongated cream or reddish-brown lenticels, glabrous or subglabrous. Stipules not spinescent, in pairs, linear, up to 3 mm long, 0,2-0,8 mm wide, soon deciÂduous. Prickles in pairs near the nodes or frequently absent (rarely a third prickle a short distance below and between the two lateral ones), spreading laterally, straightish or slightly recurved, up to 8 mm long. Leaves: petiole 0,6-2,8 cm long, glabrous or subglabrous, adaxial gland usually present, often just below the lowest pinna pair, slightly raised, 0,3-1,5 X 0,3-1,5 mm; rhachis 0,8-4(6,8) cm long, glabrous or subglabrous, lower surface usually without recurved prickles, a small gland usually at the junction of the top 1-2 pinnae pairs only, occasionally between each pinna pair or absent altog
