Evergreen large shrub or small tree to 30 feet. The crown is broad and semi-spherical, supported by a thick trunk, brown rough bark and sturdy branches. Leaves are 10–20 cm long, alternate, pinnate, and may or may not have a terminal leaflet. The flowers are a green-tinted red, small, numerous, and about 6–12 mm long. They are spirally arranged along the inflorescence axis in catkin-like racemes borne on spurs from old wood and even on the trunk (cauliflory). The fruit is a pod which can be elongated, compressed, straight or curved, and thickened at the sutures.

Demulcent and emollient (seedpods); astringent and purgative (seed husk); astringent (bark).

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Alanine, arginine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, glycine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tocopherol, tyrosine, valine (seed); benzoic acid, butyric acid, formic acid, gallic acid, isobutyric acid, leucodelphinidin, lignin, pinitol, tannin, xylose (fruit).

To treat diarrhoea and gently help to cleanse and also relieve irritation within the gut (pulp of pod); for coughs (seedpods); diarrhoea (decoction).