Tree with slender puberulent branches. Leaves 1-jugate, short-petiolate; leaf-lets 2, subovate, 2.5-4 cm. long, up to 2 cm. wide, glabrous, submembranaceous, obtuse, somewhat inequilateral, 2-to 3-nervate, pubescent on the nerves. In-florescence fasciculate, axillary, short-pedunculate; bracts about 1 mm. long. Flowers pedicellate; pedicels pubescent, about 8 mm. long, ovate-bracteate basally; sepals 4, about 3 mm. long, membranaceous, deciduous; petals 5, contracted basally, unequal, inserted upon the disc-like receptacle; ovary pubescent; style glabrous, inflexed; stigma capitate. Legume small, plane-convex, fleshy, verrucose and pubescent without.
Rain forests, inundated forests, river banks, often overhanging water.
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