Pseudoprosopis fischeri Harms

Shrub or small spreading tree 3–6 m. high, forming coppice, said sometimes to scramble; bark silvery-grey, smooth.. Young branchlets, petioles and rhachides densely puberulous; older branchlets longitudinally striate.. Leaves: petiole 0.5–2.5 cm. long; rhachis 2.7–6.5 cm. long; pinnae opposite, 3–5(–6) pairs; leaflets 7–15 pairs, 0.5–l.4(–1.9) cm. long, 0.25–0.55 (–0.8) cm. wide, oblong-elliptic, rounded or slightly emarginate and mucronate at apex, normally puberulous on both surfaces.. Racemes 4–13 cm. long, on peduncles 0.3–1 cm. long; pedicels 1.5–5(–7) mm. long; axes and pedicels densely puberulous or shortly pubescent; bracts enlarged and trilobed or obtriangular at apex.. Flowers creamy, honey-scented.. Calyx 1–1.5 mm. long, densely puberulous or shortly pubescent.. Petals 3.5–5 mm. long, ± puberulous to almost glabrous outside.. Stamen-filaments 6–8 mm. long.. Ovary densely hairy.. Pods 8.5–16 cm. long, 1.3–2.2 cm. wide, attenuate below, blackish when dry, obliquely longitudinally ± striate.. Seeds 10–12 mm. long, 7–9 mm. wide.. Fig. 7, p. 27.