Tree up to 20 m high with a spreading crown; bark grey or brown, rough and reticuÂlate or sometimes ± smooth; young branch-lets fulvous-tomentose or -pubescent. Leaves paripinnate, fulvous-tomentose or -pubescent at least when young: petiole 1-2,5 cm long; rhachis 4,5-10(11) cm long; leaflets 4-5 (very rarely 6) opposite pairs, (2,2)3-6,5 (7,5) cm long, 1,2-3,2(3,5) cm wide, narrowly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, slightly oblique basally, obtuse or rounded and usually slightly emarginate apically, mostly sparingly to densely fulvous-pubescent on both surfaces, especially beneath and on the midrib, someÂtimes ± glabrous above, closely but not very prominently reticulate on both surfaces; petiolules 1-4 mm long, fulvous-villous or -tomentose. Stipules 5-9 mm long, fulvous-villous. Racemes up to 35 cm long; axes fulvous-pubescent or -tomentose. Flowers pedicellate; bracts 3-5,5 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, ovate; bracteoles 3-4 mm long, 2-2,5 mm wide. Sepals 15-20 mm long, 5-12 mm wide, the posticous one larger than the rest, leathery, margins thinner and almost memÂbranous, densely fulvous-tomentose outside, fuscous-tomentose insid
