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Habit : | Shrubs to small trees, up to 10 m tall. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets angular, rusty tomentose. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, bipinnate, paripinnate, alternate, spiral; stipules caducous; rachis 5-16 cm long, pulvinate, round sessile glands on the upper side, rusty tomentose; pinnae 3-12 pairs, opposite, tomentose; leaflets numerous, small, sessile, 0.6-0.9 x 0.2 cm, oblong to oblong - trapezoid, apex acute and mucronate, base asymmetric, margin entire and recurved, coriaceous, tawny-villous beneath; midrib canaliculate; secondary_nerves 4-6 pairs; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence clustered heads; flowers sessile, greenish white, stamens white and many. |
Fruit and Seed : | Pod, 7.5-10 cm long, coriaceous, twisted; seeds 4-12. |