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*Deciduous shrub or small to medium-sized tree up to 20 m tall, but usually much smaller, often many-stemmed; bole up to 60 cm in diameter; bark surface pale grey to brown, reticulately fissured or scaly, inner bark exuding a reddish gum on slashing; crown rounded, irregular; twigs short-hairy when young, glabrescent. *Leaves alternate, imparipinnately compound with 3–19 leaflets; stipules linear, up to 15 mm long, falling off early; petiole 2–6(–8.5) cm long, rachis (2–)8–23(–30) cm long, densely hairy, glabrescent; petiolules (2–)5–15(–24) mm long; leaflets alternate to opposite, almost orbicular to ovate or elliptical, (3–)4.5–10(–15) cm × 2.5–6(–11) cm, base cuneate to rounded, apex shortly acuminate to rounded or notched, papery to thinly leathery, appressed hairy below when young but later often glabrescent, with 8–14 pairs of lateral veins. *Inflorescence a laxly branched, terminal panicle 8–40 cm long, hairy. *Flowers bisexual, papilionaceous; pedicel 3–10(–12) mm long; calyx campanulate, 6–9 mm long, usually glabrous, with 5 triangular teeth 2–5 mm long, upper 2 teeth longer than lower 3; corolla with clawed petals, yellow or orange-yellow, standard broadly obovate to almost circular, up to 17 mm × 16 mm, wings up to 16 mm long, keel up to 13 mm long; stamens 10, fused into a sheath up to 10 mm long, the upper stamen sometimes partly free; ovary superior, 1-celled, stiped, hairy, style up to 3 mm long, glabrous. *Fruit an elliptical-oblong to almost orbicular, flattened, indehiscent pod 4–6.5 cm long, on a stipe up to 1 cm long and with a thinly leathery wing, glabrous or slightly hairy, brown, 1(–2)-seeded. *Seed c. 6–9 mm × 4–5 mm, smooth, dark brown to blackish.

Lemmens, R.H.M.J., 2008. '''Pterocarpus rotundifolius''' (Sond.) Druce. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. In: Louppe, D., Oteng-Amoako, A.A. & Brink, M. (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}}.