Albizia tanganyicensis Baker F.

Tree (3–)9–20 m. high, deciduous and usually flowering when quite leafless; trunk smooth except at base where burned, with old bark peeling off in brown papery pieces, the young bark creamy-white to ochre-yellow or yellow-green; crown flat or rounded.. Young branchlets glabrous to pubescent.. Leaves: rhachis clothed like young branchlets, not hooked or clawed at ends; pinnae 3–6 pairs; leaflets (4–)7–13(–17) pairs, ovate-elliptic or ovate-oblong, 11–55 mm. long, 6–29(–32) mm. wide, rounded to subacute at apex, glabrous to ± crisped-pubescent on both sides.. Flowers white, usually produced before the young leaves, sessile or to 1 mm. pedicellate; bracteoles spathulate, about 2 mm. long, already fallen when the flowers open.. Calyx 4–6 mm. long, sometimes slit unilaterally, densely brown-tomentellous on lobes; tube glabrous to ± pubescent, occasionally with sessile glands.. Corolla 7–11 mm. long, ± brown-tomentellous on lobes; tube glabrous to ± pubescent, occasionally with sessile glands.. Staminal tube not or scarcely exserted beyond corolla, filaments 1.5–4 cm. long.. Pod oblong, 15 –30 cm. long, 2.5–5 cm. wide, glabrous, brown, ± glossy, not or only obscurely venose.. Seeds about 10–17 mm. long and 8–12 mm. wide, flattened.

Deciduous woodland.

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.