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Habit : | Large trees with clear bole, up to 35 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey with dense large corky lenticels, exfoliating with large rectangular scales; blaze yellow and white. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets angular, minutely pubescent. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, paripinnate, to 30 (-40) cm long, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends, pulvinate; rachis angular, 17-20 cm long; petiolule 0.5-0.9 cm; leaflets 4-6 pairs, alternate or subopposite, 9-22 x 4-7 cm, elliptic-lanceolate; apex acuminate, base asymmetric, margin entire, coriaceous; midrib raised above; secondary neves 12-20 pairs, strong, with hairy domatia in axills; tertiary_nerves obscurely visible, reticulo-percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence panicled racemes, shorter than leaves; flowers greenish yellow, fragrant. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, pyriform, verrucose, to 7.6 cm long, yellow when ripe with 4 longitudinal furrows; seeds 3-4, reddish-brown, trigonus. |