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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Shrubs to small trees, up to 5 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark greyish, lenticellate; blaze yellowish. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, paripinnate, rarely imparipinnate, up to 50 cm long, alternate, spiral; rachis striate, generally brown, pulvinate, terete, glabrous; petiolule 0.5-1 cm, stout, canaliculate, glabrous; leaflets 4-7 pairs, opposite or subopposite, 12-28 x 4.5-9.5 cm, narrow elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base acute or slightly asymmetric, margin entire, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 7-12 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence cauliflorus and racemes; flowers polygamodioecious, subsessile. |
Fruit& seed : | Drupe, 3.5 X 2.8; seeds black, ellipsoid. |