Tree 5-7-12 m; young branchlets blackish, striate, shortly subpilose; leaves chartaceous, 5-7-jugate, rhachis glabrous, not or scarcely winged, 20-25 cm long; leaflets shortly petiolulate, ± oblong.
 
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Ecology :
Narrow rocky gallery forest in bush near the savanna zone; c. 1420 m alt.
 
Described as close to B. tessmannii Brehmer, B. pallidinervia Brehmer