Tree 7.5–10(–30) m. tall, with a somewhat columnar or pyramidal crown in Africa (often more spreading in America); bark fairly smooth, grey.. Branchlets with small reddish-brown mostly spreading hairs at the tips, soon glabrescent, covered with small closely arranged lenticels.. Leaves 20–40 cm. long; stipules linear, 6–10 mm. long, caducous; stipels subulate, 1–5 mm. long; leaflets in 4–8 pairs, oblong-lanceolate or rather narrowly oblong to elliptic-oblong, 5–11(–17) cm. long, 2–5(–6) cm. wide, bluntly pointed to shortly acuminate, cuneate or shortly rounded at the base, soon glabrescent except sometimes for small hairs along the midrib beneath; midrib immersed above, very prominent beneath; lateral nerves fine, ± 12–18 on either side.. Panicles terminal and axillary, well branched, 15–40(–60) cm. long, shortly brownish hairy; bracts linear-lanceolate, 2–3 mm. long, caducous; bracteoles inserted on very short pedicel, similar to bract.. Calyx shortly toothed, 4–5 mm. long, purplish.. Corolla 12–15 mm. long, pinkish to purplish-red; standard suborbicular, glabrous; wings as long as the keel.. Fruit broadly ovoid or ellipsoid, slightly keeled, supported on a short thick stipe, 3.2–7.5 cm. long, rugulose, glabrous.. Seed ellipsoid, slightly pointed at either end and with a small protuberance just below the hilum, ± 2.5 cm. long; testa delicate, wrinkled.
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An evergreen tree. It grows 30 m high. The trunk has buttresses. It has a round crown. The leaves are 40 cm long. The leaves have leaflets along the stalk. There are 7-13 leaflets. They are oblong. The flowers are pink. They occur in large masses. They are pea like. The fruit is hard and round. It is a legume pod. It is 4 cm across. It is fleshy. It has a single seed.
Pendulous fruits, resembling a small mango.
A savannah tree, 20–30 ft. high
A wide range of habitats from evergreen tropical rain forest to dry savannah vegetation. Common in riparian zones and in areas with a high water table. It is found along roadsides, riverbanks, woodlands and pastures, from sea level to 900 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It can grow in humid or dry coastal woodland and in swamps and savannah. It is often along rivers. In the Cairns Botanical Gardens.
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