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*''Brachystegia lujae'' De Wild. (1920).

*Bean-pod tree (En). *Messasa (Po). *Myombo, mriti, mrihi (Sw).

*Deciduous or semi-evergreen, small to fairly large tree up to 35(–40) m tall; bole branchless for up to 15 m, straight and cylindrical or poorly formed, up to 120 cm in diameter, without buttresses but sometimes fluted at base; bark surface smooth, grey to greyish brown, often flaking off in thick scales, in older trees becoming shallowly fissured, inner bark reddish; crown rounded but becoming flattened in older trees, with spreading branches; twigs glabrous or slightly hairy. *Leaves alternate, paripinnately compound with 2–8 pairs of leaflets; stipules 1–4 cm long, usually caducous; petiole 1–5 cm long, thickened at base, rachis (3–)5–15(–18) cm long, grooved and slightly winged; leaflets opposite, ovate to elliptical, oblong or lanceolate, 1.5–20 cm × 0.5–8 cm, basal pair of leaflets smallest, obliquely rounded, truncate or cordate at base, acute to rounded or notched at apex, glabrous or slightly hairy, pinnately veined but with 3–5 basal veins. *Inflorescence a terminal or axillary panicle up to 8 cm long, glabrous to short-hairy. *Flowers bisexual, nearly regular, small, fragrant, at base with 2 obovate to rounded bracteoles 0.5–1 cm long; pedicel 2–8 mm long; sepals 0–4, slightly unequal, 0.5–3 mm long, nearly glabrous; petals absent; stamens 10, fused at base, 1–2 cm long; ovary superior, ellipsoid, 2–5 mm long, with stipe up to 6 mm long, hairy, style slender, up to 1.5(–2) cm long, coiled. *Fruit an oblong to obovoid, flattened pod 8–15(–20) cm × 3–5 cm, at a right angle to the stipe, smooth but slightly wrinkled, slightly winged along one suture, dark brown to purplish brown, dehiscent with 2 woody valves, up to 6-seeded. *Seeds oblong to ovoid, 1.5–2.5 cm long, dark brown.