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Shrub or small tree, deciduous, hermaphrodite, up to 4(6) m in height, erect, with long flexible branches. Trunk straight, with thick bark and deep longitudinal cracks, greyish-yellowish. Young stems and branches with smooth bark, light grey. Branchlets opposite, angular, subtetragonal, slightly tomentose, greenish. Leaves compound, opposite, with 5-7 leaflets open almost in star shape, with long petiole. Leaflets (1.5-12 \u00d7 0.7-3 cm) lanceolate, acute, with attenuate base, margin entire, flat or slightly undulate, sessile, glabrous and green on the upper side, tomentose-whitish on the underside. Inflorescence terminal, with 3-5 very showy, spiciform veticils. Flower 8-10 mm. Calyx campanulate, with 5 small teeth, short and obtuse, tomentose-whitish. Corolla tubular-campanulate, purple or pink, with 2 lips, the upper lip divided into 2 lobes and the lower tip into 3. Stamens 4, fused to corolla tube, very exserted. 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