Tree to c. 30 m high; 169 cm d.b.h. Young branches densely puberulous to ferrugineous tomentose with an indumentum of glandular and non-glandular hairs, glabrescent. Stipules not seen. Leaves: rachis 7-20 cm, densely puberulous, adaxially sulcate; pinnae (4-)6-9 pairs, 2.5-7.5 cm, densely puberulous, adaxially furrowed; petiolule c. 1 mm, puberulous; leaflets 5-13 on each side of the pinna, membranous, drying olive green above and greyish green beneath, more or less obliquely (ovate to) broadly oblong, 0.7-1.5 by rounded to truncate, upper surface glabrous or puberulous with inconspicuous lateral veins, lower surface Densely appressed puberulous (to subglabrous), with hardly visible lateral veins, margin puberulous especially in the proximal part. Racemes (incl. peduncle) 9-15.5 cm long, densely puberulous; pedicel 1-2.8 mm, puberulous. Flowers l¡ght yellow. Calyx shallowly cup-shaped, 0.7 mm, appressed puberulous, teeth triangular, acute, 0.2 mm. Petals lanceolate-oblong, acute, 2.5-4 mm, glabrous-puberulous towards the apex. Stamens 3.5-4 mm, anthers 0.5 mm. Ovary densely hirsute to subglabrous, 2.3 mm, style c. 1.7 mm. Pod blackish, oblong, straight, c. 14-17 by 1.1-1.6 cm, valves recurving from the apex at dehiscence. Seeds c. 10, glossy red and black, obliquely ob-(ivoid to orbicular in outline, c. 7-8 by 6.5-7 by 4-4.5 mm, dark portion reaching to c. 3 mm down tiie seed surface; pleurogram obovate-circular, 5 by 4.6-5 mm, open towards the hilum, not parallel to the margin.
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