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| Habit : | Shrubs or small treelets up to 7 m tall. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves compound, bipinnate, alternate, spiral, pinnae one pair; stipules caducous; rachis 18-20 cm long, pulvinate, with a round gland just above the pulvinate; pinnae 7-12 cm long, with glands just below the each pair of leaflets; petiolule to 0.4 cm long; leaflets 2-3 pairs, opposite, increase in size towards apex, 8-20.5 x 3-6 cm, ovate- lanceolate, apex caudate-acuminate (acumen 1.5-2.5 cm long), base asymmetric, margin entire, green when dry, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary nerves ca. 12 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence terminal panicle. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Pods, twisted; seeds 5, black, ellipsoid. |