Isoberlinia angolensis (welw. ex Benth.) Hoyle & Brenan

Tree 1–12(–17) m. high; bark grey to brown, fissured.. Leaves: stipules connate into an intrapetiolar scale with upper parts (? always) absent; petiole with rhachis 6.5–25 cm. long; leaflets 3–4 (rarely –5) pairs, ovate, elliptic, lanceolate or oblong, (4–)7–19 cm. long, 2–7.8 cm. wide (larger on coppice or juvenile shoots), with variable indumentum (see below); primary lateral nerves (8–)11–16 on each side of the midrib in mature leaflets.. Panicles terminal, much branched, ± dense; ultimate racemose branches short, 3–8 cm. long, ± shortly brown-tomentose.. Bracts 3–4 mm. long.. Pedicels of open flowers usually 3–4 mm. long, sometimes longer and up to 15 mm.. Bracteoles brown to greenish-brown, 10.5–16 mm. long, 6–9 mm. wide.. Sepals 5.. Petals white; upper one obovate or oblong-obovate, bilobed or deeply emarginate at apex, 9–12 mm. long, 6.5–8 mm. wide; 4 smaller, 7–12 mm. long, 3–5 mm. wide.. Stamens 10.. Pods large, 19–35 cm. long, 6–8 cm. wide, rusty-tomentose to glabrescent.. Fig. 28/1–8.

Deciduous woodland, sometimes dominant or co-dominant; open forests; gravelly, lateritic or muddy soils; often gregarious; at elevations from 600-2,100 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.