Old stems are smooth (glabrescent). It is a glabrous or glabrescent plant. Leaves are bipinnately compound, silvery pubescent or glabrescent. This is a small to medium tree, often with multiple trunks, puberulent to glabrescent stems. The top side of the leaves is a dark green color with a glabrescent texture. Young plants have vesicular trichomes, that later collapse and fall down, thus plants becoming glabrescent. The elliptic or oblong leaves measure up to long and are glabrescent to pilose. Branchlets, with those more than one year old glabrescent, gray tomentose when young. The branchlets and young leaves are appressed-pubescent with ferruginous hairs but otherwise glabrescent. Young plant parts are sparsely furfuraceous or farinose, older ones glabrescent. The peduncle, as well, is glabrescent. They are hoary at first, becoming glabrescent later, and are carried on reddish-brown branchlets. The adaxial surface is glabrescent, and is occasionally stellate-pubescent, smooth or wrinkled.