Slender woody climber up to 3.6 m. high or more, unarmed except for stipules.. Young branchlets pubescent or puberulous, often flexuous.. Leaves with 1–2 pairs of pinnae; one or more of the pinnae sometimes modified to a tendril, or spirally twisted at base and bearing leaflets above; leaflets 12–17 pairs, narrowly oblong, mostly 1–1.8 cm. long and 2–4 mm. wide (the lowest of each pinna often smaller), rounded and obtuse or mucronate at apex, asymmetric at base, glabrous or with some hairs on midrib and margins; lateral nerves not or scarcely visible beneath.. Stipules divergent, rigid, subconical, spinescent, ± pubescent, 1.5–3.5 mm. long.. Racemes axillary, solitary, 3–5 cm. long (not including the 1.5–3 cm. long peduncle); axis ± pubescent or puberulous; pedicels 0.25–0.5 mm. long.. Flower-colour uncertain, probably as in E. wahlbergii.. Calyx glabrous, about 1 mm. long.. Petals 3 mm. long.. Stamen-filaments 3–3.5 mm. long.. Pods about 13–17 cm. long, flat, subcoriaceous, falcately curved, with a stipe 2.5–3.8 cm. long.. Seeds (unripe) about 8 mm. long and 5 mm. wide.
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