| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Local Name | Malamanchadi |
| Habit | Large sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Evergreen trees, bark surface brown, mottled with grey, smooth; brittle; blaze yellowish-brown, streaked. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, clustered at the tips of branchlets; stipules small, lateral, pubescent; rachis 4.5-20 cm long, slender, pulvinate, pubescent, leaflets 9-13, opposite, exstipellate; petiolule 6-10 mm, slender, pubescent; lamina 3-15 x 2-4.3 cm, elliptic-oblanceolate, elliptic-oblong, or obovate, base acute, obtuse, truncate or oblique, apex acuminate, or caudate-acuminate, margin entire, glabrous above, downy beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 4-9 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, flowers bisexual, purple, striped with green, in axillary and terminal racemes; fruit a pod 5-7.5 cm long, oblong, thick, flat, red, dehiscent; seed one, bright red. |