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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Twigs winged, ridged. Leaves bipinnate, rachis with glands. Flowers white. Fruit red pods coiled with black seeds. |
| Habit : | Small, evergreen tree up to 10 m tall. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bole straight or leaning, bark red-brown, smooth. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs angular, with U-shaped ridges, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves bipinnate, alternate and spiral, slightly to densely hairy, 3-10 pairs of pinnae, 3-12 pairs of opposite leaflets, leaflets asymmetrically rhomboid, with a diagonal solitary main vein, secondary veins obtuse, intramarginal veins looped, tertiary veins invisible. Rachis with raised, cup-shaped glands. Stipules present. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers white arranged in an inflorescence, terminal or in the upper leaf axils, bisexual, pedicels 1--3 mm long. |
| Fruits : | Fruit up to 20 cm long, pod twisted into an orange-red coil with black seeds. |
| Seeds : | Seeds 4-12, black, glossy. |