Xylia evansii Hutch.

A tree. It grows 35 m tall. The trunk is often fluted and bent. It is 160 cm across. It has large buttresses. The bark is brown and roughly scaly. The leaves are alternate and clustered at the ends of twigs. The leaves are compound and twice divided. There are 9-20 pairs of leaflets in the side shoots that are 10-35 cm long. The leaflets are narrowly oval and 9 cm long by 2 cm wide. They taper to the tips. The flowers are in a head 2 cm across. The fruit is a narrow pod. It is 20 cm long by 5 cm wide and flattened. It is slightly curved and brown. There are 4-9 seeds. The seeds are narrowly oval and 2 cm long by 1.5 cm wide and flattened. They are shiny.

Evergreen forest, semi-deciduous forest and gallery forest. It is often found on well-drained alluvial soils, along small watercourses and on hillsides with deep soils, at elevations around 500-600 metres.

Plants are grown from seed. Seeds germinate in 4-10 days.