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[[File:Baphia nitida 01.jpg|thumb|close up of a flower; obtained from (National Parks Board, Singapore)]][[File:Baphia nitida 02.jpg|thumb|foliage; obtained from (National Parks Board, Singapore)]][[File:Baphia nitida 03.jpg|thumb|planted as shade tree; obtained from (National Parks Board, Singapore)]][[File:Baphia nitida 04.jpg|thumb|trimmed as hedge;obtained from (National Parks Board, Singapore)]]

*Many-stemmed erect shrub or small tree up to 9 m tall with glabrous to densely pubescent branchlets. *Leaves alternate, simple and entire; stipules quickly caducous; petiole 1–4 cm long, prominently thickened at base and at top; blade ovate, elliptical, obovate or lanceolate, 5–21 cm × 3–9 cm, base rounded to cuneate, apex acuminate, slightly leathery, almost glabrous, pinnately veined. *Flowers in axillary fascicles, 1–5-flowered, bisexual, papilionaceous; pedicel slender, 3–17 mm long; calyx spathaceous, 8–10 mm long, glabrous but with a tuft of brown hairs at apex; corolla with standard suborbicular, 1–2 cm in diameter, white with a yellow centre, wings and keel white with a pocket near the base; stamens 10, filaments unequal, free, up to 7 mm long; ovary superior, sessile, glabrous, sometimes with a row of silvery hairs along the dorsal margin, 1-celled, style curved, filiform, stigma small. *Fruit a compressed pod 8–16.5 cm × 1–1.5 cm, pointed at both ends, 1–4-seeded. *Seeds almost circular in outline, 1–1.5 cm in diameter, brown.

Cardon, D. & Jansen, P.C.M., 2005. '''Baphia nitida''' Lodd. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. In: Jansen, P.C.M. & Cardon, D. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>. Accessed {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}.