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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark grey, fissured; blaze cream. |
Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous, whitish. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, imparipinate, alternate, spiral; rachis terete, glabrous; petiolule up to 0.4 cm long; leaflets 5, alternate 3.5-7.5 X 2-3 cm, elliptic, apex shortly acuminate with retuse tip, base asymmetric, margin entire or crenulate, chartaceous, dark green, glandular punctate; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 6-10 pairs, looped near margin; tertiary_nerves obscure to broadly reticulate. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence few flowered panicles, axillary; flowers white, subsessile. |
Fruit& seed : | Berry ellipsoid, red when ripe; seeds 1-2. |