Small to medium-sized tree, up to 12 m, d.b.h. to 40 cm. Branchlets terete, slightly puberulous, glabrescent. Stipules with the juvenile leaves auriculate-cordate, with a caudate apex, c. 1.5 by 1.3 cm, those in the inflorescence ovate, acute, concave, c. 3 mm. Leaves: rachis 18-28.5 cm, sparsely puberulous, glabrescent, with petiolar glands 1-16 cm above the base and 0.2-0.8 cm below the junction of the proximal pair of pinnae, broadly elliptic to circular, raised, flat to slightly depressed in the central portion, 0.8-1.5 mm in diameter; pinnae 13-17 pairs, 3.7-8.5 cm, puberulous, glabrescent; leaflets 16-20 pairs per pinna, opposite, sessile, chartaceous, linear to sub-falcate, 3.5-8 by 1.5-2.l(-2.5) mm; base strongly asymmetrically truncate to cuneate, apex sharply acute, bent forwards; upper surface sparsely puberulous in the proximal part, lower puberulous all over, especially along the main vein; main vein marginal at the front margin. Inflorescences composed of pedunculate glomerules, aggregated into terminal, yellowish to whitish tomentose-woolly panicles; peduncles 1-1.3 cm, in fascicles of about 5. Flowers dimorphic, pentamerous, bisexual. Calyx tubular to cup-shaped, 1.5-2 mm, ± hirsute; teeth triangular acute, c. 0.2 mm. Corolla campanulate, (4-)4.2-4.5 mm, hirsute, lobes ovate, acute, 1-1.3 mm. Stamens c. 10-14 mm, tube equalling the corolla-tube. Ovary sessile, glabrous c. 1 mm. Pod yellowish brown, oblong, flat, straight, indehiscent, (7-)14-16.5 by 2.1-2.9 cm, valves chartaceous, glabrous, veins inconspicuous, marks over the seeds indistinct. Seeds dark olive-green, broadly ovate-elliptic, elliptic, or suborbicu-lar, sometimes irregular, flat, 7-8 by 6 by 0.6 mm; areole ± elliptic, 5-5.5 by 3-3.2 mm, pleurogram more or less parallel to the margin, open towards the hilum.
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