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Habit : | Medium sized trees up to 12 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark reddish-brown, prominently lenticellate; blaze reddish pink. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, puberulent. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, bipinnate, alternate, spiral; stipule caducous; rachis 10-11 cm long, pulvinate, round sessile gland along the upper side of the primary and in between the leaflets of secondary rachis, puberulent; petiolule 0.4-0.5 cm long; pinnae 1-2 pairs, opposite, lower pinnae shorter than terminal; leaflets 4-8, opposite, increasing in size towards apex, 4-14.5 x1.8-5.5 cm, usually narrow elliptic to ovate, caudate-acuminate with mucronate tip, base asymmetric or cuneate to acute, margin entire, chartaceous, puberulent at least when young; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 8-14 pairs; tertiary_nerves weakly percurrent or broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence globose heads, in terminal and axillary panicles; flowers white, sessile. |
Fruit and Seed : | Pods, 10 x 1.5-2 cm, twisted, strap shaped, red within; seeds 3-8, ovoid, smooth. |