Sparsely branched shrub or small tree 1.2-2(-6) m high. Branchlets terete, often hollow, covered by small gland-like hairs. Stipules linear-lanceolate, 2.5-4.7 by 0.2 cm, with glandular hairs and prominent longitudinal veins, persistent. Leaves: rachis 12-18 cm, minutely glandular puberulous, gland circular, sessile, without raised margin, ± depressed central part, c. 1 mm in diameter; pinnae 1 pair, 13-24 cm, minutely glandular puberulous, glands circular, flat, sessile, without raised margins, 0.5-1 mm in diameter; petiolules black, c. 3 mm, shortly glandular puberulous; leaflets 4 or 5 pairs per pinna, opposite, the lower leaflet sometimes unpaired, chartaceous, ± equal-sided, ovate-elliptic, elliptic, or elliptic-oblong, 6-20.5 by 2.3-6.7 cm, base ± symmetrically rounded, apex acuminate-caudate; both surfaces subglabrous, with minute glandular hairs especially on midrib and principal veins; principal lateral veins 6-8 per leaflet-half, upwards arching, non-parallel; reticulation prominulous above, prominent beneath. Inflorescence terminal, minutely glandular hairy, consisting of clustered racemosely arranged racemes, the latter up to 7 cm, main axis up to 2 cm; bracts c. 1 mm, with nectary; pedicels 0.5-1 mm, glabrous. Flowers pentamerous, bisexual. Calyx pale greenish, cup-shaped, 1-1.5 mm, glabrous, truncate. Corolla cream, the tips faintly pink, funnel-shaped, 19-20 mm, glabrous; lobes triangular ovate, apiculate, c. 4 mm. Stamens cream-white, up to 35 mm, tube slightly shorter than the corolla-tube. Ovary solitary, glabrous. Pod orange, densely spirally contorted, 3-6-seeded, segments one-seeded, ovoid, slightly flattened, c. 1-1.5 cm wide, up to 1.4 cm high, constrictions 1—4(—10) mm wide, pod possibly fleshy, veins inconspicuous, dehiscing along both sutures. Seeds black, ellipsoid, 1.2 by 7 by 5 mm.
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