Entada africana

Entada africana is a shrub or small tree growing 1.2 to 10 m tall, with rough bark. Its leaves are variable, with rachises 5.3 to 30 cm long and 2 to 10 pairs of pinnae, each 7.1 to 17 cm long. The leaflets are 1 to 3.1 x 0.32 to 0.85 cm, linear-oblong to elliptic or obovate-oblong, with a rounded apex and obtuse to oblique base. The inflorescence is a spiciform raceme, 6.5 to 15 cm long, with yellow to white, sweetly scented flowers. The fruit is a laterally compressed, almost straight craspedium, 38 x 5 to 7.3 cm, divided into one-seeded segments by transverse septa. Seeds are ovoid, 1.2 x 0.9 to 1 cm in size.