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*Evergreen, medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35(–45) m tall; bole straight and cylindrical to crooked or knotted, up to 75 cm in diameter, often fluted at base, sometimes with small buttresses up to 1 m high; bark surface smooth but with numerous lenticels, slightly scaly in old trees, pale grey to greenish grey, inner bark gritty, pale orange-brown, with copious watery exudate; crown often rounded and small, dense, sometimes with spreading branches; young twigs densely brown short-hairy. *Leaves alternate, bipinnately compound; stipules needle-shaped, 4–8 mm long, curved inwards, early caducous; petiole c. 10 cm long, jointed at base, rachis ribbed, rusty brown short-hairy; pinnae 4–6 pairs, opposite; petiolules 2–4 mm long; leaflets 12–22 per pinna, alternate, oblong-elliptical to ovate-elliptical, 4–10 cm × 1.5–4 cm, base asymmetrically cuneate, long-acuminate at apex, glabrous. *Inflorescence an axillary or terminal panicle consisting of dense racemes, up to 30 cm long, densely brown short-hairy. *Flowers bisexual, slightly zygomorphic, 5-merous, bright yellow, sessile; sepals free, 7–15 mm × 6–8 mm, outside red-brown hairy; petals shortly clawed, one c. 2 cm × 1 cm, other 4 obovate, c. 2.5 cm × 1.5 cm; stamens 10, free, c. 1 cm long; ovary superior, c. 0.5 cm long, sessile, 1-celled, style slender, c. 7 mm long. *Fruit a woody, narrowly obovate, flattened pod 15–30 cm × c. 3 cm, red-brown short-hairy, dehiscing with 2 valves splitting from top and recurving, 1–2-seeded. *Seeds elliptical to rounded, flattened, c. 3.5(–5) cm × 2 cm, yellowish brown. *Seedling with epigeal germination; hypocotyl 5–9 cm long, epicotyl 5–18 cm long; cotyledons sessile, 2–4 cm long, thick and fleshy, rounded at apex; first leaves opposite, paripinnate with 2–3 pairs of leaflets.

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* G.D. Djagbletey, Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Ghana

Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Ghana * C.H. Bosch , PROTA Network Office Europe, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 341, 6700 AH Wageningen, Netherlands