Deciduous shrub or small tree 2–7 m. high; branchlets purple-brown, tomentose to puberulous and becoming glabrate with age, dotted with pale elliptical lenticels.. Leaves 5–15(–22) cm. long, opposite or sometimes clustered at the end of the branchlets; rhachis tomentose; leaflets (1–)2–4 pairs, opposite, sessile (except sometimes the terminal one especially if the upper pair of leaflets abort), lateral ones ovate-elliptic to oblong-ovate, terminal one obovate to obovate-elliptic, 2.5–6.8 cm. long, 1.2–3.7 cm. broad, acute or obtuse (terminal one occasionally retuse) at the apex, obtuse or truncate to somewhat cordate (terminal one attenuate) and slightly oblique at the base, margin entire and with closely spaced somewhat inconspicuous pellucid gland-dots, scattered glandular-dots visible under high magnification, papyraceous and tomentose beneath to puberulous or glabrate above; lateral nerves 6–10 pairs.. Panicles to 6 cm. long; pedicels 4–10 mm. long, densely pubescent.. Sepals 4, united or sometimes free, unequal in size, 0.8–1.3 mm. long, acute, whitish pubescent outside, ciliate.. Petals 4, oblanceolate, 3.5–6 mm. long, yellow-white.. Male flowers: stamens 6–8, 2.5–4 mm. long, usually shorter than the petals; anthers ± 1 mm. long; vestigial pistil ellipsoid, 1–1.5 mm. long, glabrous.. Female flowers: staminodes absent; ovary pyriform, glandular-punctate, glabrous, on a short gynophore; style short, robust.. Fruit globose, glandular-foveolate or glandular-bullate, 6–8 mm. in diameter, usually 2–4-lobed.. Seeds as F. angolensis.
Rocky deciduous and evergreen bush or woodland, dry evergreen forest; Acacia-Commiphora bushland extending into open Combretum-Terminalia woodland, at elevations from 1,050-1,900 metres.
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