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Habit : | Trees up to 15 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark pale brown, shallowly fissured, lenticels rusty brown; blaze pink. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets slender, terete, lenticellate, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, trifoliate, alternate, spiral; rachis up to 5 cm long, triangular, pulvinate, glabrous; petiolule of side leaflets 0.4-1 cm long and middle leaflet with 1.3-3 cm long, swollen at both ends, angled or subterete; lamina 4-15 x 2.5-5 cm, variable in shape, narrow oblong to elliptic or narrow obovate, apex acuminate with retuse tip or rounded with retuse, base acute to cuneate, margin entire, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, glaucous beneath; glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 7-13, gradually curved; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate, slender. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence terminal or axillary panicles; flowers greenish-yellow. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry ovoid, to 1.3 cm long; seeds 1-2, pale brown, enclosed in a white fleshy aril. |