[2] Parkia javanica is a middle-sized, unarmed tree that can reach a height of up to 30 meters, characterized by spreading branches and brown, pubescent twigs.

The tree’s inflorescence is racemose, featuring dense, clavate heads with sterile flowers lower down,[2] on long peduncles measuring 30 to 40 cm.

[citation needed] The small, pale yellow flowers are complete, bisexual, regular, actinomorphic, hypogynus, pentamerous, and thalamus slightly cup shaped, with silky pubescent bracts on the outside.

The corolla consists of five pale yellow petals that are fused at the base, forming a short tube, cleft halfway down and valvate.

The androecium has 10 monadelphous stamens with filiform filaments, and united in the lower part with each other, exserted; anthers narrow, without apical glands, versatile.

This bean after having its skin scraped off is eaten raw or cooked by the Mizo and other hill people of north-east India.