Tree 6–24 m. tall; bark grey or brownish, fairly smooth to conspicuously fissured; slash whitish, with blood-red resinous exudate.. Branchlets subglabrous to tomentose, sometimes with scattered yellowish often glandular spreading bristles.. Leaves 10–30 cm. long; stipules oblong, bluntly pointed, ± 3 mm. long, evanescent; lateral leaflets 2–6 on either side, ovate, oblong-ovate or oblong-elliptic, 4.5–11 cm. long, (2–)2.5–6.5 cm. wide, narrowed to a short acuminate tip, rounded to slightly cordate at base, glabrous to puberulous above, subglabrous to tomentose and generally minutely glandular beneath, with ± 6–14 inconspicuous spreading primary lateral nerves on either side and fine reticulate venation prominulous at least above.. Panicles terminal and axillary from upper leaves, 8–22 cm. long; axes densely hairy and sometimes densely covered with yellowish spreading ± glandular bristles; bracts lanceolate to ovate, 1–3.5 mm. long, caducous; bracteoles variously inserted on the 3–6 mm. long pedicel, small caducous.. Calyx 5–7 mm. long, densely hairy and sometimes with glandular bristles.. Corolla 11–18 mm. long, cream or golden-yellow to orange, fragrant; standard obovate; wings broadly expanded, much exceeding the keel and nearly as long as the standard.. Fruit suborbicular, 5.5–21 cm. across, with a 0.3–2 cm. long stipe and a broad wing curved round to approach or extend beyond the pedicel, bearing the style near the base, pubescent (sometimes densely so) and sometimes with scattered yellowish sticky glandular bristles most numerous over the seed-cavity and towards the base, venose.
Wooded grassland, Brachystegia and Acacia woodlands, dry evergreen thickets, riverine forest and moister areas; on rocky hills, plateaux and scarps, on stony soils; termite mounds; at elevations from 50-1,800 metres.
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