Shrub or straggling bushy tree 3–10(–20) m. high, usually with short bole; crown spreading and much branched; bark thick, brownish grey, flaking.. Leaves simple, ovate to elliptic, trifoliolate or occasionally 5-foliolate with the terminal leaflet ovate or suborbicular, 5–8 cm. long 4–5.5 cm. broad; petiolule of terminal leaflet up to 2 cm. long; lateral leaflets smaller and subsessile; leaflet apex usually obtuse, base obtuse to cordate and occasionally oblique, discolorous, dark green and glossy above, first barely puberulous but becoming glabrous, lower surface very densely yellowish-white stellate-tomentose; midrib and lateral nerves impressed above, prominent but covered beneath.. Racemes 4–10(–15) cm. long, simple (spike-like) or once-branched, usually in leaf-axils; axis densely whitish-tomentose; flowers glomerate, subsessile or with pedicel up to 2 mm. long.. Calyx-lobes ovate, ± 1 mm. long and broad.. Petals oblong-elliptic, 1.5–2.5 mm. long, 0.8–1.2 mm. broad, yellowish.. Drupe oblong, somewhat compressed and oblique, 7–9 mm. long, 5–7 mm. in diameter, glabrous or with very few scattered stellate hairs.
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A shrub or small tree. It loses its leaves during the year. They grow 3-10 m high. The crown is round. The small branches are drooping. The bark is thick and rough grey-brown. There are yellow hairs. The leaves are single with 3 leaflets. The large central leaflets are 5-8 cm long. The side leaflets are smaller. They are rounded. The leaflets are dark green above and more pale underneath. The flowers are small and yellow-green. They are on 4-12 cm long spikes. The fruit are small and fleshy. They are purple when ripe. They are 1 cm long and oblong but slightly flattened.
Wooded grasslands, high rainfall savannah, often on rocky hills, extending into deciduous thickets and Brachystegia woodlands, often on termite mounds, forest edges, at elevations from 900-1,600 metres.
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A tropical plant. It grows in the lowlands. It grows in wooded grasslands often on rocky hills. In Tanzania it grows between
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