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Leaves 4-12 cm, alternate, paripinnate, lanceolate, with stipules 3-5 mm, with petiole 1-3 cm, petiole and rachis initially eglandular and hairy, and 3-7 pairs of leaflets 6-25(35) \u00d7 9-45 mm, subsessile, obovate or oblong-obovate, somewhat asymmetric, rounded at the apex and usually mucronate, or sometimes somewhat emarginate, attenuate-rounded at the base, entire margin, glabrous \u2014somewhat pubescent when young on the underside\u2014, light green on the upper side and dull on the underside. Inflorescences racemiform, axillary, 2-25 cm, arranged in small clusters, erect, with 10-25 pedicellate flowers, with pedicels <em>c. <\/em>4 mm \u2014slightly longer after anthesis\u2014, slightly pubescent. Calyx (5)8-13 mm, with 5 sepals fused only at the base, with lanceolate teeth, glabrous, reddish-brown, open in a star-shape. Corolla with 5 petals 8-12(20) mm, obovate, open in a star-shape, yellow, with purplish-black vernation, glabrous. Stamens 10, free, very unequal, 2 longer stamens, nearly as long as the petals and with linear arched anthers, the medium sized stamens shorter and with erect anthers almost as long as the filament, and the 3 upper stamens transformed into staminodes. Ovary shortly hairy. Pod 2-5.3(6) 1.2 \u00d7 cm, reniform, highly compressed, rounded at both ends, with papery valves with tenuous transverse ribs and a marked longitudinal ridge formed by a crest or wing developed at each seed, laxly puberulent, with 6-12 seeds separated by septa. 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