Albizia zimmermannii Harms

Tree 6–15 m. high; crown flat, spreading; bark smooth, finely fissured, grey-brown.. Young branchlets sparsely to densely rusty-puberulous or-pubescent, sometimes nearly glabrous.. Leaves: rhachis clothed like young branchlets, not hooked or clawed at end; pinnae 3–6 (rarely to 10) pairs; leaflets 8–17 pairs, oblong-elliptic, slightly oblique, 7–15 mm. long, (3–) 4–8 mm. wide, rounded at apex, beneath paler, ± glaucous and appressed-puberulous (occasionally glabrous or nearly so).. Heads often aggregated on short leafless branchlets; pedicels 0–1 mm. long; bracteoles very minute, but sometimes present when the flowers open.. Flowers white and pink.. Calyx 1–2.5 mm. long, densely rusty-puberulous outside, not slit unilaterally.. Corolla 3.5–5 mm. long, densely rusty-puberulous outside.. Staminal tube not or scarcely exserted beyond corolla; filaments 0.7–1.3 cm. long.. Pod oblong, 15–32 cm. long, 3.8–7 cm. wide, ± densely rusty-puberulous, crimson near maturity, turning brown with age (Greenway), normally with very prominent transverse veins much raised, particularly in centre, sometimes almost wing-like, and anastomosing.. Seeds about 10 mm. long and 7 mm. wide, flattened.