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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Status: Literatures
Habit : | Trees up to 25 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, exfoliating or irregularly large flaky, lenticellate; blaze reddish brown. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, lenticellate, with dense indumentum of reddish-brown lacerated scales. |
Exudates : | Latex white from cut end of bark, not profuse. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, usually imparipinnate, ca. 54 cm long, alternate, spiral, pulvinate; rachis and petiolules (ca. 1 cm long) with lacerated scales; leaflets to 11-13, subopposite, 7.5-23 x 2-6 cm long, oblong-lanceolate, apex acuminate to caudate-acuminate, base asymmetric, margin entire, glabrous, scales only on midrib beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 12-18 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary panicles, few to densely covered reddish-brown lacerated scales; flowers polygamodioecious, subsessile, yellowish. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid, to 3 cm long, densely covered with reddish-brown lacerated scales; seed one. |