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Leaves paripinnate; stipules c.3 mm long, narrowly triangular, early caducous; petiole 3–10 cm long, glabrous to pubescent; rachis (7.5)11–23 cm long, glabrous to pubescent; petiolules 3–5 mm long; leaflets opposite to subopposite, in 8–10 pairs, 1.7–8.1 × 1.1–4.4 cm (the lowest usually smaller and proportionately broader), ovate to elliptic, apex acute to rounded or retuse, base cuneate to rounded, glabrous or sparsely pubescent above, pubescent to almost glabrous beneath; venation slightly prominent on both surfaces.
A tree. It grows 5-15 m tall. The small branches are brown. They have ridges along them. It loses its leaves during the year. The leaves are compound. The leaflets are opposite in 8-10 pairs. The flowers have a scent. The fruit is a dark brown to black pod. It is 20-100 cm long by 1.5-2 cm wide. It has many seeds. The seeds are dark brown and 12 mm long by 10 mm wide and 3 mm thick. They are broadly oval and flattened and enclosed in pulp.
Stamens 10; anthers and filaments glabrous; 3 stamens with filaments 35–50 mm long, sigmoidally curved in the basal third, swollen above the middle, anthers 5–6 mm long; 4 with straight filaments 7–10 mm long, anthers 5 mm long; 2 with filaments 9–10 mm long, swollen at the base, recurved above, anthers c.2 mm long; one with straight filament 7–10 mm long, anther 2 mm long.
Inflorescences terminal, racemose; axis sparsely to densely pubescent; bracts 6–9 × 2–3 mm, ovate, acuminate, pubescent; bracteoles 3–5 × 2 mm, acuminate, pubescent; bracts and bracteoles present at anthesis.
Ovary 35–45 × 1–1.5 mm including stipe c.10 mm long, linear, densely pubescent, multiovulate; stigmatic chamber subterminal, fringed with stiff hairs.
Pod dark brown to black, 20–100 cm long, 1.5–2 cm in diameter, cylindrical, velvety-pubescent to glabrous, many-seeded.
Calyx lobes 5, 11–13 × 4–6 mm, ovate-elliptic, sparsely to densely pubescent outside and inside.
Seed dark brown, 12 × 10 × 3 mm, broadly obovate, flattened, enclosed in pulp.
Branchlets brown, longitudinally ridged, pubescent to glabrous.
Tree 5–15 m tall.
Petals obovate.
