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Habit : | Trees up to 35 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey and flaky; blaze pink. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets slender, terete, glabrous. |
Exudates : | Oily resin from cut wood. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, imparipinnate, alternate, distichous; stipules caducous; rachis pulvinate, terete, 6-10 cm long; petiolule 0.3-0.7 cm long, with short, subulate gland like structure at the base of terminal leaflet; leaflets 4-7, alternate, lamina 4.5-9 x 1.7-4.5 cm, asymmetric-falcate or narrow ovate-elliptic to narrow oblong, apex caudate-acuminate, base rounded or acute, margin entire, chartaceous, obscurely pellucid punctate; midrib slightly raised; secondary_nerves ca. 10 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence panicled racemes; flowers small, numerous, white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Pod, ellipsoid or oblong to 3.5 x 3 cm, flattened towards pedicel, beaked, coriaceous; seed solitary, compressed. |