Usually a tree up to 15 m high with a flatÂtened or rounded spreading crown, sometimes shrubby or flowering from coppice shoots 0,3-2 m high. Bark dark grey and rough on old boles, pale grey and smooth on young boles; young branchlets puberulous to pubesÂcent or tomentose, soon glabrescent. Leaves: petiole (1)1,5-3 cm long, puberulous to pubescent or tomentose; rhachis 4-17 cm long, pubescent like the petiole; leaflets (2)4-6(8) pairs per leaf, (1)2-8,5 (11,5) cm long, (0,6)1-3,2(6,5) cm wide, narrowly oblong-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, or sometimes narrowly obovate-oblong, markedly asymÂmetric basally, obtuse or rounded and sometimes slightly emarginate apically, sparingly to densely pubescent on both surfaces, especially beneath and on the midÂrib, sometimes ± glabrous above, margins usually with a conspicuous fringe of whitish hairs. Stipules intrapetiolar, ± 3-5 mm long, united below, bicuspidate above, non-folia-ceous, rapidly deciduous. Panicles up to ± 30 cm long and wide; axes brown-tomentel-lous or shortly tomentose. Open flowers on pedicels 2-6 mm long; bracts 2-10 mm long, usually half a
