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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Deciduous trees, up to 15 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark brwonish, smooth; blaze yellowish. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets quadrangular, minutely pubescent, lenticellate. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, digitate or rarely trifoliate, opposite, decussate; rachis pulvinate, planoconvex in cross section, minutely pubescent; petiolule 0.5-1.5 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; leaflets 5 (rarely 3), lamina 7-11.5 x 2-3.5 cm, elliptic, apex acute to obtuse, base cuneate - attenuate, margin entire, chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, glaucous beneath, glabrous; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 6-14 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent, not prominent. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary corymbose cymes, minutely pubescent; flowers zygomorphic, sessile; corolla white with purplish pubescent; anther lobes purple. |
Fruit& seed : | Drupe, smooth, obovoid, purplish black; seeds 4. |