Changes

*''Macrolobium macrophyllum'' (P.Beauv.) Macbr. (1919).

*Palissandre d’Afrique, réré à longs fruits (Fr).

*Shrub or small to medium-sized tree up to 20 m tall, often straggling with several stems, rarely liana-like; bole often cylindrical, up to 60 cm in diameter; bark slightly fissured, flaking off, greyish, inner bark orange-brown to red with brown exudate; crown spreading; twigs silvery to pale brown short-hairy. *Leaves arranged spirally, paripinnately compound with (2–)3(–4) pairs of leaflets; stipules ovate-elliptical, c. 2 mm long, soon caducous; petiole (1–)2–3(–7) cm long, rachis 2.5–11(–16) cm long; petiolules (4–)5–8(–15) mm long; leaflets opposite, obovate-elliptical, up to 20(–30) cm × 7(–16) cm, rounded to slightly cuneate at base, acuminate at apex, silvery to pale brown short-hairy below. *Inflorescence an axillary loose panicle, sometimes some together on knob-like structures below the leaves, up to 15(–21) cm long, brown short-hairy. *Flowers bisexual or functionally male, zygomorphic, 5-merous, with 2 firm, elliptical bracteoles up to 8 mm × 6 mm at base; pedicel 3–8 mm long; sepals ovate-triangular to oblong, up to 5 mm long, 2 partly fused, others free, glabrous; petals unequal, 1 large with claw 3.5–4(–6) mm long and deeply lobed lamina 3–4.5 mm × 4–6 mm, others small, 1–2(–5) mm long; stamens 3, 10–13 mm long, rudimentary stamens 6, up to 1.5 mm long; ovary superior, sessile, 3–5 mm long, velvety hairy, 1-celled, style slightly longer than stamens. *Fruit an oblong pod, sometimes slightly curved, (8–)15–26(–34) cm × 5–7 cm, pointed at apex, prominently veined, brown to almost black, short-hairy, up to 7-seeded. *Seeds elliptical, flattened, 5–6 cm × 3.5–5.5 cm, seed coat thin, brittle and dull. *Seedling with hypogeal germination; epicotyl 6–8 cm long, hairy; leaves alternate, first leaf with 2 pairs of leaflets.