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Root: band absent. Stem: bole 1 erect. Leaf: foliar rachis glabrate or pubescent; with number of the pairs of the leaflet 2 to 3 pairs/3 to 5 pairs; relation size the proximal almost of the same size of the distal; form of the blade elliptic/ovate/oblong/suborbicular; apex obtuse/acute; margin flat/revolute to less on the base; with pontuated absent; indumentum glabrous both side; consistency coriaceous/chartaceous. Inflorescence: panicle lax; size equal to 1 times bigger than leaf adjacent. Flower: sepal glabrate only externally; ovary pilose on the margin. Fruit: pod 1 to 2 cm long; shape slightly falcate/oblong. Seed: aril white. Raiz: área(s) ausente(s). Caule: tronco(s) 1 ereto(s). Folha: raque foliar glabra(s) ou pubescente(s); com número de pares de folíolo(s) 2 até 3 pares/3 até 5 pares; relação tamanho os proximal(ais) quase do mesmo tamanho dos distal(ais); forma das lâmina(s) elíptica(s)/oval(ais)/oblonga(s)/suborbicular(es); ápice(s) obtuso(s)/agudo(s); margem(ns) plana(s)/revoluta(s) ao menos na(s) base; com pontuação(ões) ausente(s); indumento glabro(s) amba(s) face(s); consistência coriáceo(s)/cartáceo(s). Inflorescência: panícula(s) laxa(s); tamanho igual até 1 vezes maior(es) que folha(s) adjacente(s). Flor: sépala(s) glabra(s) somente externamente; ovário(s) piloso(s) na(s) margem(ns). Fruto: legume(s) 1 até 2 cm compr.; formato levemente falcado(s)/oblongo(s). Semente: arilo(s) branco. Raiz: area(s) ausente(s). Tallo: tronco(s) 1 erecto(s). Hoja: raquis foliar glabra(s) o pubescente(s); con número de páreas de foliolo(s) 2 hasta 3 páreas/3 hasta 5 páreas; relación dimensiones los proximal(es) casi del mismo dimensiones de los distal(es); forma de las lámina(s) elíptica(s)/oval(es)/oblonga(s)/suborbicular(es); ápice(s) obtuso(s)/agudo(s); margen(es) plana(s)/revoluta(s) al menos en la(s) base; con pontuación(es) ausente(s); indumento glabro(s) amba(s) face(s); consistencia coriaceo(s)/cartaceo(s). Inflorescencia: panícula(s) laxa(s); dimensiones igual hasta 1 veces mayor(es) que hoja(s) adyacente(s). Flor: sépala(s) glabra(s) sólo externamente; ovario(s) piloso(s) en la(s) margen(es). Fruto: legume(s) 1 hasta 2 cm largo; forma ligeramente falcado(s)/oblongo(s). Semilla: arilo(s) blanco. Raiz: área(s) ausente(s). Caule: tronco(s) 1 ereto(s). Folha: raque foliar glabra(s) ou pubescente(s); com número de pares de folíolo(s) 2 até 3 pares/3 até 5 pares; relação tamanho os proximal(ais) quase do mesmo tamanho dos distal(ais); forma das lâmina(s) elíptica(s)/oval(ais)/oblonga(s)/suborbicular(es); ápice(s) obtuso(s)/agudo(s); margem(ns) plana(s)/revoluta(s) ao menos na(s) base; com pontuação(ões) ausente(s); indumento glabro(s) amba(s) face(s); consistência coriáceo(s)/cartáceo(s). Inflorescência: panícula(s) laxa(s); tamanho igual até 1 vezes maior(es) que folha(s) adjacente(s). Flor: sépala(s) glabra(s) somente externamente; ovário(s) piloso(s) na(s) margem(ns). Fruto: legume(s) 1 até 2 cm compr.; formato levemente falcado(s)/oblongo(s). Semente: arilo(s) branco. Raiz: area(s) ausente(s). Tallo: tronco(s) 1 erecto(s). Hoja: raquis foliar glabra(s) o pubescente(s); con número de páreas de foliolo(s) 2 hasta 3 páreas/3 hasta 5 páreas; relación dimensiones los proximal(es) casi del mismo dimensiones de los distal(es); forma de las lámina(s) elíptica(s)/oval(es)/oblonga(s)/suborbicular(es); ápice(s) obtuso(s)/agudo(s); margen(es) plana(s)/revoluta(s) al menos en la(s) base; con pontuación(es) ausente(s); indumento glabro(s) amba(s) face(s); consistencia coriaceo(s)/cartaceo(s). Inflorescencia: panícula(s) laxa(s); dimensiones igual hasta 1 veces mayor(es) que hoja(s) adyacente(s). Flor: sépala(s) glabra(s) sólo externamente; ovario(s) piloso(s) en la(s) margen(es). Fruto: legume(s) 1 hasta 2 cm largo; forma ligeramente falcado(s)/oblongo(s). Semilla: arilo(s) blanco.

Terrícola

Árvore

Known from the States of Par'a, Maranhao, Piauhy, Goyas, and Matto Grosso, Brazil.

Shrubs or small trees; twigs glabrous (or minutely pubescent), smooth, the bark of twigs tight, smooth (or cracking slightly), the bark of trunk bright red, the bark of twigs gray, gray-black, or purple-brown, the lenticels small, well- spaced; petioles glabrous, 4-6 cm. long, smooth or cracking transversely, the leaves up to 15 cm. long, the leaflets 2 or 3 pairs, coriaceous, stiff, often sub- equilateral, often glaucous, elliptic-lanceolate, elliptic-rotund or oblong, 2-9 cm. long, usually about 7 cm. long, 4-6 cm. wide, usually about 4 cm. wide, essen- tially glabrous above and below, tapering widely or cuneately (often narrowly so) into an obtuse tip, the latter minutely retuse or splitting along costa, obtuse (rarely obtuse-rotund) at base, the costa plane and seemingly subimmersed above, prominent beneath, glabrous or minutely pubescent above and below, the principal secondary veins 15-25, those in middle of blade 5-10 mm. apart, plane or promi- nulous, often evanescent above, those in middle spreading from costa at an angle of 500-70?, arcuate-ascending near middle, often forking toward margin, usually enclosing equally conspicuous but non-parallel irregular veins, the reticulate areas insculptate, often subimmersed above, about 1.5 mm. wide, the margin often involute, the whole blade often curling, thin-callose, glabrous or pubescent; inflorescence paniculate, axillary or the uppermost paired rachises arising from axils of uppermost pair of leaves, the rachises below often seemingly paired in axil of a single leaf, up to 25 cm. long, usually 8-15 cm. long, minutely golden- pubescent, the branches closely appressed or somewhat patent, whorled or some- what distichous in appearance, somewhat zig-zag, short, slender, 1.5-5 cm. long, those at apex shorter, the flowers 10-20 per branch; sepals 4, at least one dis- tinctly concave, drying dull red-brown or yellow-brown, rigid, carnose, glabrous on outside, appressed-hirsute within, wide-ovate, narrow-ovate-lanceolate or oblong 2.6-4.8 mm. long, 1.2-2.3 mm. wide, acute to obtuse at apex, tufted, obtuse at base, the margin scarious, separating from corpus, the veins 1-5, often evanescent; stamens 10 (11-13), the filaments up to 6.5 mm. long, the anthers oblong, 1-1.6 mm. long, 0.6-1 mm. wide, distinctly apiculate and non-retuse at apex; ovaries relatively dense-hirsute on margins, oblong to subrotund, 1.3-2 mm. long, 0.7-1 mm. wide, the style 4? mm. long; fruit drying black-brown or red- brown, glaucescent (?), the valves not strongly crassate, rugose on surface, obovate-oblong to subrotund, up to 2 cm. (+?) long, about 1.5 (+?) cm. wide at dehiscence, the arillus of seed yellow in vivo.