Small to medium-sized deciduous tree usually 4-12 m high, occasionally up to 18 m under favourable conditions, sometimes many-stemmed or a shrub. Bark grey or yellowish-brown, fairly smooth; young branchlets slender, sparingly to densely pube-rulous or pubescent, sometimes becoming glabrescent. Leaves alternate, with a single pair of leaflets: petiole 0,8-1,8 cm long (in our area), glabrous or sparingly to densely puberulous, sometimes indumentum coarse and spreading; leaflets subsessile, asymmeÂtric, 2,5-5(7) cm long, 1,7-3,6 cm wide (in our area), obliquely ovate, scarcely falcate, the outer margin strongly convex, the inner margin nearly straight or slightly convex, rounded or obtuse apically, with 3-6 conÂspicuous nerves arising from the base, proÂminent and raised on the lower surface, reticulate venation fairly conspicuous on both surfaces, coriaceous, with scattered pellucid gland-dots, glabrous throughout or someÂtimes sparsely to fairly densely pubescent along the nerves near the base beneath, margins sometimes very shortly ciliate. InfloÂrescence an axillary or terminal panicle up to 14 cm long, lateral branc