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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Large trees up to 25 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark brownish, irregularly flaky; blaze pinkish. |
| Branchlets : | Branchlets stout, angular, glabrous, with scars of fallen leaves. |
| Leaves : | Leaves compound, paripinnate or imparipinnate, 15-20 cm long, spiral; rachis distinctly winged; leaflets sessile, 8-12 (-17), usually opposite or subopposite, sometimes alternate, 4-13 x 1.5-2.5, linear-oblong, apex usually obtuse with retuse tip or rarely acuminate, base asymmetric or cuneate, margin entire, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves many, slender, fairly close, parallel; tertiary_nerves admedially ramified. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary panicle; flowers small, polygamous; pedicel 0.3 cm long. |
| Fruit& seed : | Drupe, purple, shining, apiculate, 1.3 cm across, 1-seeded. |