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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Large shrubs to small trees up to 12 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark brownish, densely lenticellate; blaze pale orange. |
| Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, slightly pubescent when young. |
| Leaves : | Leaves compound, paripinnate, rarely imparipinnate, alternate, spiral, to 40 cm long; rachis pulvinate slightly pubescent when young; petiolule 0.4-0.8 cm, stout, glabrous; leaflets 3-6 pairs, opposite-subopposite, 9-25 x 2.5-7 cm, narrow elliptic-oblong, apex obtuse or shortly acuminate with blunt tip, base acute, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 12-25 pairs, gradually curved and ascending; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary or terminal panicled racemes; flowers polygamodioecious, white, sessile. |
| Fruit& seed : | Drupaceous, 3-lobed, 3-sided; seeds ellipsoid, black. |