Leaves: petiole and rachis together 6–20 cm long; pinnae 2–4 pairs; pinna rachis 8–18 cm long; leaflets (7)10–13 per pinna, (2)2.5–5(6) × 1.3–3.5 cm, similar in shape and texture to those of E. suaveolens, both surfaces completely glabrous; leaflet petiolules 3–4 mm long.
Pods (7)11–15 × 2.9–4.2 cm excluding the stipe, sometimes curved, rounded to pointed at the apex, scarcely woody, dehiscing simultaneously along both margins; stipe 1–2 cm long, ± asymmetrically placed; seeds probably potentially 8–10 × 10–12 × 4–6 mm, ± ellipsoid.
Racemes 5–10 cm long including a peduncle 0.8–1.8 cm long, the axis and peduncle densely puberulous to pubescent with appressed or shortly spreading rusty-brown hairs.
Flowers (7)9–11 mm from base of pedicel to anthers, cream to greenish-yellow; pedicel 2–3 mm long at anthesis.
Young branches and leaf rachides glabrous to shortly and thinly puberulent or pubescent.
Calyx 2–3 mm long, fused for third to half its length, rusty-brown pubescent.
Petals 3–4 mm long, pubescent particularly at their margins.
Stamen filaments with soft, irregular, spreading hairs.
Tree up to 14 m high.