Tree up to 10 m in height, monoecious \u2014rarely polygamous or hermaphrodite\u2014, evergreen, with well defined trunk, short, thick, tortuous, with grey-brown or grey and smooth bark, rounded crown. Branches thick, extended, greyish, younger branches hairy. Leaves alternate paripinnate, with 2-4 pairs of leaflets of 2-5.5 \u00d7 1.6-4.2 cm, petiolulate, obovate to elliptic, with rounded or emarginate apex, sometimes apiculate and \u00b1 rounded base, coriaceous, dark green on the upper side and slightly lighter on the underside, hairy at first \u2014as well as the rachis\u2014 and the whole leaf turning glabrous. Inflorescences racemiform, born directly on the branches and even on the trunk, male, female or hermaphrodite. Perianth monochlamydeous, cup-shaped, very small, with 5 triangular lobes, greenish or reddish, sericeous. Male flowers usually with 5 stamens, free, with greenish filament and anther yellow or reddish. Female flowers with sericeous pistil, ending in disc-shaped stigma, \u00b1 bilobed. Pod 8-25 \u00d7 2-3 cm \u2014in wild specimens usually they do not exceed 15 \u00d7 2 cm\u2014, compressed, linear-elliptical and often slightly curved, glabrescent or with applied scattered hairs, green at first, then red-brown and finally blackish and coriaceous, with 1-17 seeds. Seeds 8-10 \u00d7 6-7.5 mm lenticular, slightly compressed, brownish, smooth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12237","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n