Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Trees up to 15 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Trunk fluted; bark yellowish grey, smooth, lenticellate; blaze yellowish. |
| Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, minutely yellowish pubescent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves compound, usually paripinnate, sometimes imparipinnate, alternate, spiral, crowded at twig ends, 20-40 cm long; rachis pulvinate, terete, yellowish pubescent when young, later glabrous; petiolule 0.3-0.7 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, puberulous; leaflets 4-5 pairs, opposite, subopposite or alternate, 5-22 x 2.5-8 (-10 cm), usually size increasing towards apex, usually lower leaflets narrow ovate, upper leaflets elliptic-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base asymmetric, margin entire, chartaceous, glabrous; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves 6-12 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary drooping panicles; flowers polygamodioecious; pedicels ca. 3 cm long. |
| Fruit& seed : | Capsule, inflated, orange-scarlet, broader than long, 2-valved, to 2.5 x 5.5 cm; seeds 1-2 per cell, black, arillate. |