Tree to 15 m high with a rounded or spreading crown. Bark greyish, smooth or fissured; young branchlets sparingly pubeÂscent when young but soon becoming glabrous. Leaves glabrous or subglabrous: petiole 2-7 cm long, a small rounded slightly raised gland usually present at or just below the junction of the lowest pinna pair; rhachis (0)2-8 cm long, sulcate above, a small rounded gland usually present at the junction of the top pinna pair, at the junction of each pinna pair or absent from some; pinnae (1)2-4 pairs; rhachillae 5,5-17 cm long, sulcate above, pulvinule sometimes sparsely pubescent; leaflets 4-9 pairs, 18-28 x 8—15 (18) mm, oblique basally, oblong to broadly elliptic or obovate, rounded to truncate apically, mucronate, margins crisped, glabrous to sparsely puberulous on both surfaces, petiolules often sparsely pubescent. InfloreÂscences globose; peduncles 1,5-4 cm long, sparingly rusty-pubescent. Flowers whitish, subsessile; bracteoles rapidly deciduous. Calyx 2,5-4 mm long, densely ± rusty-tomentellous. Corolla 4-6 mm long, lobes densely ± rusty-tomentellous, especially apically. Stamens 1-1,6 cm long, united basally for up to 6 mm, tube not or scarcely exserted beyond the corolla. Ovary 2-3 mm long, shortly stipitate, glabrous. Pods light brown, 8-21 X 1,4-2,6 cm, linear-oblong, valves thin, glabrous, not or scarcely venose, slightly umbonate over the seeds, longitudiÂnally dehiscent.
