ໄມ້ໝາກເຄັງ / Velvet Tamarind

Large deciduous trees up to 35 m high, bole 16–18 m high, 80–100 cm diameter, rarely 150 cm. Trunk straight, buttresses inconspicuous. Bark generally grey or whitish, slightly rugose, inner bark 6–8 mm thick, hard, brownish, exuding a little transparent resin, soon turning red. Stipules small, caducous. Leaves imparipinnate. Petioles 12–20 mm long, glabrous or pubescent; rhachis 5–15 cm long, glabrous or glabrescent. Leaflets 5–9, alternate, broadly ovate to elliptic, 4–7 by 1.5–4.5 cm, base rounded to acute, slightly oblique, apex obtuse to tapered acuminate, secondary veins 6–10 pairs, anastomosing near the margin; petiolules 4–5 mm long, sparsely pubescent. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, panicles, 10–30 cm (or more) long, pubescent. Pedicels 2 mm long, pubescent. Buds ovoid, 3–4 mm long. Sepals 5, elliptic, connected at the base into a short tube, 4 mm long, grey pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Petals absent. Stamens 2, filaments very short, c. 1 mm long. Ovary silky, style glabrous, sessile with 2 ovules, stigma small. Fruit a pod, ovoid, slightly laterally compressed, 15–20 by 8–15 mm, finely pubescent to velvety. Seed(s) 1 or 2, elliptic, 9 by 6 by 3 mm, longitudinally striate, covered by whitish pulp.