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| Habit : | Trees up to 8 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish white; blaze brownish. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, pubescent when young. |
| Leaves : | Leaves compound, pinnate, alternate, distichous, pulvinate; rachis 30 cm or more long, distinctly winged; wings obcordate; stipules paired, foliaceous, to 7 (including apex) x 2 cm, lanceolate, caudate; appendage at the base of stipule oblanceolate or reniform, 4 x 5 cm; leaflets 4-6 pairs, opposite, sessile, pink or white and pendulous when young, lamina 12-32 x 6-10 cm, oblong-lanceolate, lowest pairs usually narrow ovate, apex caudate, base rounded or subcordate, margin entire, subcoriaceous; midrib impressed above; secondary_nerves ca. 12 pairs, looped; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence short racemes, axillary or on old wood; flowers with white petals and rosy pink sepals. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Pod thin, brown, tomentose, 5 x 2.8 cm; seeds 2-3 round, flat. |