Tree up to 12 m high, branches usually spreading somewhat. Bark grey, rough or sometimes smooth; young branchlets very shortly pubescent, becoming glabrous with age. Leaves: petiole 3-8,5 cm long, adaxial gland usually immediately above or a short distance above the pulvinus, humped or flattened and±discoid and up to 4 X 4 mm; rhachis 0-13 cm long, sparingly pubescent when young but soon becoming glabrous or almost so; pinnae 1-4 pairs; rhachillae 5-16 cm long; leaflets 4-9 pairs, (16)23-50 x 8-28 mm (in our area), oblique, ovate to rhombic-ovate or elliptic-oblong, usually rounded or slightly emarginate apically, papery to sub-coriaceous, glabrous, venose, glaucous, paler beneath. Inflorescences globose; peduncles 3,6-8 cm long, sparingly rusty-pubescent. Flowers creamy-white, sessile or up to 2 mm pedicellate; bracteoles small, rapidly deciÂduous and shed before flowering. Calyx (3)3,5-5,5 mm long, rusty-puberulous or -pubescent. Corolla 5,5-11 mm long, densely minutely appressed-pubescent, lobes up to 4 mm long. Stamens 1,5-3 cm long, united basally for up to 5 mm, tube not or scarcely exserted beyond the corolla. Ovary ± 2 mm long, shortly stipitate, glabrous. Pods 11-16 (23) X 2,5-44(4,6) cm, oblong, valves thin, glabrous or with few hairs near the base and margins, transversely venose, umbonate over the seeds, longitudinally dehiscent. Seeds ± 7-9 mm in diameter, flattened.
