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Habit : | Trees up to 30 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, smooth. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets flat or subterete, glabrous; young parts fulvous tomentose. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, imparipinnate, alternate, spiral and clustered at twig ends; stipules caducous; petiole 2.5-5.5 cm long, pulvinate; rachis 6-11 (-25) cm long; petiolule 0.4-0.8 cm long, canaliculate; leaflets 7-9 pairs, subopposite, lamina 4.5-10 x 2-3.5 cm, usually elliptic-lanceolate, sometimes the terminal one narrow obovate, apex acuminate sometimes caudate-acuminate with blunt tip in young trees, base acute, margin undulate in young trees, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib canaliculate above, stout beneath; secondary_nerves ca. 7 pairs, slender, often impressed above in thick mature leaflets; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers pale pink in axillary racemes. |
Fruit and Seed : | Pod, elliptic, inflated, 12 x 6 cm long, beaked; seeds solitary, scarlet. |