Tree 15-24 m high. Stipules free, interpetiolar, falcate, up to 7.5 mm long, subglabrous, caducous. Leaves (4-) 5-or 6-foliolate, shortly petioled; petiole and rachis 6.5-14.5(-16.5) cm long, glabrous, prolonged beyond the upper petiolule into a subulate, caducous part, often leaving a minute tip. Leaflets more or less coriaceous, elliptic, ob-ovate-elliptic, or ovate, (6.3-)13.5-23.5 by (3.2-)5-7.9 cm, the lower ones usually smaller; apex shortly acuminate or caudate; base cuneate, subacute, obtuse, or rounded, symmetric; glabrous; nerves 4-7 per side; petiolules short, 4-9 mm, glabrous. Inflorescences axillary, 8-16(-60) cm long, pendulous, the rachis minutely puberulous, glabrescent, loosely flowered; bracts ovate, c. 3 mm long, or 3-lobed and the central lobe relobed with 3-6 needle-like segments, glabrous; bracteoles minute, c. 0.6 mm long; pedicels 6-14 mm, articulated at the base, minutely, sparsely puberulous. Flowers sparsely puberulous outside. Hypanthium c. 1 mm long, glabrous inside. Calyx lobes unequal, broadly elliptic or ovate, or orbiculate, 5-7 by 3.5-5 mm, glabrous inside. Stamens 10; filaments up to c. 18 mm, glabrous; anthers c. 1 mm long. Pistil shortly stipitate; stipe c. 1 mm, free, glabrous; ovary c. 4 mm long, densely brown hairy, 4-or 5-ovuled; style up to c. 15 mm, glabrous except sparsely hairy towards the base; stigma obscure, slightly thicker than the style. Pods (fide de Wit I.e.) obliquely obovate, c. 11 by 5-6 cm, with stout veins and heavy, raised sutures, beaked, flat, puberulous.
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