Tree up to 35 m high and 60 cm in diam. Stipules caducous, not seen. Leaves (3-) 4-or 5-(6-)jugate; petiole 1.5 — 3( — 5) cm and rachis 4-14 cm long, slightly puberulous, glabrescent, or almost glabrous. Leaflets firmly coriaceous, oblong or oblong-elliptic, elliptic, or ovate, 2.5-8(-9.5) by 2-4(-5) cm; apex shortly acuminate or acuminate; base rotundate, often symmetric; glossy and often almost glabrous on both surfaces, except sparsely hairy on the midrib of lower surface; petiolules very short, up to c. 3 mm, minutely puberulous, glabrescent. Inflorescences paniculate, 9-20 cm long, the lateral branches up to 5 cm long, both rachis and branches densely tawny puberulous, moderately flowered; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, 3-4 mm long, densely puberulous; pedicels 1 — 3( — 5) mm, densely puberulous. Calyx lobes elliptic or lanceolate, 7-10 by 3-5 mm, densely puberulous outside and appressed hairy inside. Petal elliptic, 8 by 2-3 mm, fleshy; outside densely puberulous and inside glabrous, margin villose. Stamens: free filaments and staminodes up to c. 12 mm, sparsely hairy often at the lower part or at base, or glabrous; 2 largest anthers ellipsoid, c. 2 mm long, the others (much) smaller, up to 0.75 mm long. Ovary subsessile or very shortly stiped, ovate-rhomboid, c. 2 mm long, densely woolly, 5-or 6-ovuled; style up to c. 15 mm, glabrous; stigma small. Pods (young) ellipsoid, slightly asymmetric, 5-8.5 by 3-4.5 cm, flattened, slightly minutely hairy, not veined, with scattered, very short spines, beak very short. Seeds only very young ones seen.
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