Small trees; branchlets hairy with stiff hairs to glabrous, dull, tan to grayish. Leaves with 9-13 elliptic to ovate leaflets, the lateral leaflets mostly opposite or subopposite, obtuse or often retuse, 2-8 cm long, 1-4 cm wide, the first pair often the smallest on the leaf, thin in texture, dull above,, sometimes slightly paler beneath, when mature with appressed, fine, stiff, non-overlapping hairs beneath; stipules narrow, to 5 mm long, apparently deciduous, stipels obvious, setaceous, to 2 mm long, persistent, stiff, the petiolules 2-3 mm long. Inflorescence with raceme axis 2-5 cm long, the flowers close, subtended by ovate-triangular bracts, pedicels 2-3 mm long, the axis, bracts and the pedicels pubescent with stiff dark red brown or yellow brown tinged hairs. Flowers ca. 7-9 mm long with the petals extended, the hypanthium tube campanulate, ca. 3 mm long, the 5 teeth narrow triangular, acute, extending ca. 1 mm beyond the rim of the cup, the lowermost tooth longest, ca. 1.2-1.8(-2) mm long, the 2 uppermost united for about ?/2 of their length, the whole calyx pubescent with stiff hairs as on the inflorescence; petals of subequal length, the standard reflexed, circular, ca. 6 mm long, 6 mm wide, glabrous, the claw ca. 1 mm long, wings oblong, ca. 5 mm long, glabrous, the claw ca. 2 mm long, the keel petals fused for part of the length, ca. 7 mm long with scattered hairs or glabrous; stamens 10, the vexillary stamen leaving the sheath near the base, the 9 other stamens leaving the sheath in a regular series, the outermost with longer free filaments, the innermost with shorter fila-ments as seen when the sheath is opened at the position of the vexillary stamen;
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ovary compressed, linear, ca. 5 mm long, appressed hairy, the style coiled, some-times forming an almost complete turn, the stigma terminal, capitate. Fruit com-pressed, narrow oblong, tapered abruptly to acute tip formed by the persistent style base, with woody valves, compressed strongly between the seeds, the outer surface dark brown, strongly reticulate wrinkled, at least on drying, usually gla-brous but sometimes with remote hairs on the surface and with scattered hairs on the edges; seeds 3-6, compressed, roundish to oblong, dark brown, smooth, ca. 8 mm long, 7 mm wide.
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