Tree to 30 m high; buttresses straight; branchlets slender, smooth, grey, minutely adpressed hairy. Stipules free, narrowly lanceolate, c. 2 mm long. Leaves 2-(or 1 ^folio-late; petiole very short, slender, glabrous, glossy, 4-15 mm, ending in a subulate tip (c. 3 mm long). Leaflets subcoriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 7-22.5 by 3-11.5 cm, apex acuminate, base rounded or obtuse; glabrous above, dull and covered with minute scattered adpressed hairs beneath; nerves 8 or 9 per side; petiolules 3-8 mm, trans-versally wrinkled. Inflorescences in upper axils or terminal on lateral shoots, up to 2.5 cm long, often with many fasciculate, linear, bud scales or bracts, the rachis slightly puberulous; bracts and bracteoles minute, caducous; pedicels very short or almost absent. Flower buds very young, c. 2 mm long. Infructescences up to 11 cm long. Pods brown, often obliquely elliptic-oblong, 7-10 by 3.5-5 cm, compressed, cuneate at both ends, laxly prominulously reticulate, densely ferrugineous velvety tomentose and pubescent, the stipe short, c. 3 mm, valves hard leathery, 1-(or 2-)seeded. Seeds slightly reni-form, c. 3.5 by 5 cm, flat, reddish brown.
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