Abyssinia entada

Entada abyssinica is a tree species described in 1848 by Steud. ex A.Rich. It is found across several African countries including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, and others. The tree has a spreading crown and reaches up to 15 meters in height. Its leaves are 16.3 to 21.7 cm long, with 12 to 20 pairs of pinnae, each bearing 20 to 55 leaflet pairs. Leaflets are linear-oblong, measuring 4 to 12 mm in length. The inflorescence is a 7 to 16 cm long spiciform raceme, with flowers that are creamy white to yellowish and sweetly scented. The fruit is a laterally compressed, torulose craspedium, 15 to 39 cm long, divided by transverse septa into one-seeded segments. Seeds are 1 to 1.3 cm long, with a pleurogram that is C-shaped or closed.