Trees or sometimes shrubby climbers. Branches long, flexuose; young branchlets puberulent. Leaves 12-15 cm; rachis and petioles densely puberulent as short petiolules; stipules lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, puberulent; leaflets 21-42, trapezoid-oblong, small, 12-18 × 5-7.5 mm, firmly papery, both surfaces puberulent, at length abaxially glaucous, adaxially glabrescent, base asymmetric, apex rounded, slightly emarginate. Panicles axillary, congested, with corymblike branches, 1.5-5 × 1.2-2.5 cm; peduncles short, as branches and pedicels densely puberulent; bracts and bracteoles persistent, ovate, puberulent. Flowers small, ca. 6 mm. Calyx campanulate, ca. 3 mm, outside puberulent or glabrescent; teeth ovate, upper 2 subconnate. Corolla white; petals long clawed; standard reflexed, ovate; wings with sagittate base; keel united above, blade hastate on upper side below. Stamens 9 or 10, monadelphous. Ovary stipitate, glabrous; ovules 2 or 3. Legume brown and shiny when dry, oblong-ligulate, thin, 2.5-6 × 1-1.4 cm, glabrous, uniformly finely reticulate, base attenuate to long slender stipe, acute, 1-4-seeded. Seeds narrow, ca. 18 × 4 mm. Fl. Jan-Apr, fr. May-Jul.
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A large woody climber. It loses it leaves during the year. The small branches are twisted. The leaves are unequal at the base. The flowers are white and have long stalks. The fruit are small pods and are like straps. They are brown.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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