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Habit : | Small trees, up to 10 m tall. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous; young branchlets angular and hairy. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, paripinnate, alternate, distichous, pulvinate; stipules in pairs, lanceolate with broad reniform foliaceous appendage at base; rachis short ca. 6 cm long, angular, obscurely winged; leaflets 2 pairs, subsessile, lower most pair just above the pulvine, lamina 8-26 x 2-8.3 cm, narrow elliptic to oblanceolate, apex bluntly cuspidate with mucronate tip, base asymmetric, subcoriaceous, glabrous; midrib impressed above; secondary_nerves strong ca.10 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary racemes; flowers with white petals and rosy pink sepals. |
Fruit and Seed : | Pod to 7 x 3 cm, flat, twisted when dry; seeds flat, rounded. |