Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae.
Phylogenetic Number: 1.4.58B.
Tribe: Detarieae.
Group: Berlinia.
Species Studied - Species in Genus: 0 studied; 1 in genus.
Fruit: A legume; unilocular; 6–11 cm long; 3.6–5.1 cm wide; 0.2–0.3 cm thick; 2–9 times longer than wide; with deciduous androecial sheath; with deciduous corolla; with deciduous calyx; without orifice formed by curving of fruit or fruit segments; straight; not plicate; not twisted; asymmetrical; obovate; with both sutures nearly straight; not inflated; compressed; with beak (3–6 mm long); straight; with solid beak the same color and texture as fruit; short tapered at apex; oblique with longitudinal axis of fruit; short tapered at base to rounded at base; right angled with longitudinal axis of fruit; with the apex and base uniform in texture (assumed); coriaceous; seed chambers externally invisible; margin not constricted; margin without sulcus; margin embellished; margin with wing(s); wing(s) present; wing(s) 2; wing(s) 2–5 mm wide; wing(s) sutural; wing(s) on 1 suture (upper suture); stipitate; with the stipe 6–12 mm long; with all layers dehiscing (assumed); splitting along suture(s). Dehiscence of valves along both sutures; active. Replum invisible. Epicarp dull; with surface texture uniform; pubescent and indurate; with hairs erect; with 1 type of pubescence; stiif puberulent, or velutinous; with pubescence uniformly distributed (assumed); with simple hairs; stiff, or pliable; with hair bases plain; eglandular; without spines; not smooth; with elevated features; veined; longitudinally veined relative to fruit length and reticulately veined (with 1, or rarely 2, prominent longitudinal veins running the length of the fruit; the first longitudinal vein 0.2–0.4% of the fruit width down from the upper suture and the rare second one 0.6–0.8% down from the upper suture); not tuberculate; not exfoliating; without embedded tissue, much thicker than epicarp, running from base to apex. Seed(s) 1–3; length parallel with fruit length (assumed); neither overlapping nor touching (assumed); in 1 series (assumed). Aril absent (assumed).
Seed: 25–28 mm long; 20–23 mm wide; the description suggests that this might be an overgrown according to Corners's (1951) definition; not angular; symmetrical; elliptic (with a protruding base); compressed (assumed). Cuticle not inflated. Testa present; colored; bichrome, or monochrome; silver and brown (purplish, at the margins); glabrous; membraneous. Wing(s) absent. Endosperm absent.