Tree 5–10 m. tall.. Terminal leaflet obtrapeziform, 10·5 cm. long, 14 cm. wide, ± truncate at the apex, incised at the actual apex, the incision hidden by overlapping lobes of the leaf, subcordate at the base; lateral leaflets ovate-rhomboid, 11–15 cm. long, 9–13 cm. wide, narrowed to a retuse apex, broadly rounded and slightly subcordate at the base; all leaflets with irregular almost crenate margins, glabrous above and almost so beneath save for sparse hairs on main nerves; venation prominently raised and reticulate beneath; petiole 20·5 cm. long, sparsely prickly; rhachis 6·5 cm. long with 1 or 2 prickles; petiolules 7–10 mm. long.. Inflorescences robust, dense, many-flowered, densely floccose tomentose, the tomentum easily removable; rhachis 20 cm. or more long; peduncle 35–40 cm. long; pedicels 2–4(or fide Harms 6–10) mm. long; bracts lanceolate, forming a deciduous tuft at the end of the rhachis.. Calyx in bud obliquely tubular, sometimes curved, later deeply slit on one side to form a sheath, densely granularly stellate tomentose; tube 2·5–3 cm. long; 2 upper teeth linear-filiform, ± 1 cm. long; laterals similar, 7–8 mm. long; lowest shorter and broader, thickened, 4 mm. long.. Standard “flame-red”, short-clawed, oblong-lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 5·5–7 cm. long, 1·8–2·5 cm. wide, obtuse; keel and wings ± equal, a sixth to a quarter the length of the standard.. Ovary stipitate, linear, densely tomentose.. Pods unknown.
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