Savanna tree or shrub 3–10(–12) m. high; bark rough, deeply longitudinally fissured when old; branchlets rough, with thick lenticels, glabrescent.. Leaves clustered at the ends of the branchlets, 11–15(– 17)-foliolate; rachis 15–26 cm. long, subcylindric, glabrous or rarely with a few hairs; petiolule of lateral leaflets 0–2 mm. long, terminal one 1–2.5 cm. long, leaflets ± falcate, lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic, 3–11 cm. long, 1–4 cm. broad, narrowly acuminate to obtuse or acute at the apex, rounded or subcordate and somewhat unequal-sided at the base, margin entire, papyraceous, discolorous, sparsely puberulent but later glabrous; midrib and lateral nerves prominent beneath; reticulation also conspicuous beneath.. Inflorescence of axillary, stout and congested racemes, simple or 1–3-branched near the base, 2–12 cm. long, reddish pubescent with stellate hairs; bracts ovate, 1.5–2 mm. long; flowers subsessile.. Calyx-lobes ovate, 1–1.5 mm. long, pubescent outside, ciliate along the margin.. Petals oblong-elliptic 3–4 mm. long, 1.7–2 mm. broad, glabrous, yellow.. Drupe oblong-ellipsoid, 7–9 mm. long, 4–5(–7) mm. in diameter, glabrous.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 8 m high. It has a tuberous root. The bark is rough with deep cracks. The young parts have a reddish covering. The leaves are in clusters at the ends of the small branches. The leaves have leaflets along the stalk. The leaves are compound and 12-25 cm long and with 11-15 leaflets 1-2 cm long. The flowers are yellow. The fruit are oblong and 7-12 mm long.
Young parts with reddish floccose indumentum
A savannah tree, to 25 ft. high
Wooded grassland; rocky hillsides; sometimes on black cotton soils; sandy hollows; with Commiphora africana on hill screes; woodland with Terminalia brownei, Combretum adenogonium, Acacia seyal; river valleys; at elevations from 300-2,300 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in the Sahel in West Africa. It can grow in arid places. It grows in savannah. It grows between 300-2,300 m above sea level.
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