Tree or sometimes an erect or climbing shrub with glabrescent young twigs, leaves with 1 or 2 pairs of leaflets, lateral leaflets to 200mm x 100mm, terminal ones to 260mm x 120mm. Pubescent inflorescence with minute bracts, pilose sepals 2.5mm x 1.5mm, hairy punctate petals 6.5mm long, glabrous woody fruit to 35mm x 20mm with a beak