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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Large shrubs to small trees up to 5 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark grey, lenticellate. |
Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, lenticellate, slightly pubescent when young. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, paripinnate, alternate, spiral, to 60 cm long; rachis pulvinate, obscurely striate, pubescent when young; petiolule 0.5-1 cm, canaliculate, glabrous; leaflets 4-6 pairs, opposite-subopposite or alternate, 12-21 x 3.5-6 cm, narrow elliptic to elliptic-oblong, apex acuminate, base acute to attenuate, margin entire, chartaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 8-10 pairs, gradually curved and ascending; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary or terminal panicles; flowers polygamodioecious, white, sessile. |
Fruit& seed : | Drupes of 1-3, basally connate, ellipsoid, 3.5 x 2 cm; seeds ellipsoid, black. |