Tree to 40 m high, d.b.h. to 100 cm. Branchlets ± puberulous to glabrous, with glandular and non-glandular hairs. Stipules not seen. Leaves: rachis (9.5-)10-20(-35) cm, adaxially distinctly sulcate, puberulous; pinnae (3-)4-8 pairs, angular, densely puberulous; petiolule 0.5-1.5 mm, puberulous; leaflets (2-)3-9 on each side of the pinna, thinly chartaceous to membranous, drying lead-grey or dull dark green above and light grey to dull light green beneath, asymmetrically (obovate-) oblong, elliptic or sub-trapezoid, (0.5-)0.7-3.3 by (0.4-)0.7-2.2 cm; base asymmetrically cuneate/rounded; apex truncate, retuse or emarginate (to broadly rounded), upper surface glabrous to densely puberulous, lower surface sparsely puberulous to velutinous, pellucid dots not seen; lateral veins invisible to prominulous, c. 6-8 per leaflet-half, ± parallel, arching and anastomosing near the margin. Racemes (incl. peduncle) to 30 cm long and 1.5-2 cm wide, ± densely patently puberulous; bracts filiform, 0.75-1 mm, sericeous, very early caducous; pedicel 1.8—3(—5) mm, ± densely puberulous; calyx broadly cup-shaped, (0.5-)0.8-1.3 m n, ± densely puberulous; teeth triangular, acute, (0 3-)0.5 mm. Petals white, cream or pale yellow, oblong, acute, 3-3.5 mm, glabrous or puberulous in the distal portion. Stamens 4 mm, filaments pirtk to dull pink, anthers orange yellow to dark brown (after dehiscence), 0.6 mm. Ovary ± densely puberulous to woolly, 2 mm, style 1.5 mm, stigma tubular, creamy green. Pod dark brown, strap-shaped to subfalcate, (7-)ll-19 by 1.3-2 cm, twisting after dehiscence, with 10-14 seeds. Seeds glossy dark red with apical black margin, asymmetrically oblong or rhomboid in outline, compressed, (5-)6-8(-9.5) by 5.5-8 by 3-4 mm; pleurogram c. 0.75-1 mm from the margin, open towards the hilum, parallel to the margin in the distal part of the seed; dark spot 4-5 mm broad and 1 mm high.
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