Observations
A small to medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, bole often short and much-branched, buttresses short and blunt; leaves with 2—4(—5) pairs of leaflets of (4—)5—6(—8) cm (1.5—)2.5—3.3 cm, on young trees sometimes larger; inflorescence (5—)8—15(—18) cm long; flowers with glabrous sepals and petals; capsule (4.5—)6—10 cm long; seed 2—6 cm long. Plantation-grown wood is usually somewhat less dense than that from trees of the forest and weighs 560—740(—850) kg/m3 at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.
Selected Sources
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