Parkia sherfeseei Merr.

Tree to 27 m high by 1.2 m d.b.h. The young branchlets, rachises, peduncles and bud capitula covered in ferrugineous to yellow-brown pubescence. Leaves to 50 cm long (fide Merrill). Pinnae 8-12 pairs, opposite, rachises to 16 cm long; leaflets c. 22 pairs, with gap of 3 mm between adjacent margins, oblong, 21-25 by 0.9-1 cm; apex rounded, inequilaterally retuse and minutely mucronulate, base rounded, inequilateral, main vein slightly ex-centric and placed towards distal margin, straight at apex, drying pale; sparse white hairs at base on margin and main vein. Peduncles 25-30 cm long, plus receptacle c. 4.1 cm long. Bud capitula obovoid or pyriform, 4-5 by 2.5 cm. Flowers: bracts and calyx c. 7 mm long. Fruits unknown.

A tropical plant.