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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
Diagnostic characters : | Bark with red sap, leaves trifoliolate, alternate and spiral. Base of rachis swollen. Flowers unisexual. Fruit a fleshy berry. |
Habit : | Evergreen or deciduous tree up to 35 m tall. |
Trunk & bark : | Bole straight, bark reddish-brown, smooth to scaly. |
Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, glabrous. |
Exudates : | Exudate red. |
Leaves : | Leaves trifoliolate, alternate and spiral, base of rachis swollen. Leaflets glabrous, oval-elliptic or ovate, apex acuminate, base acute, margin dentate. Primary veins single, secondary veins obtuse, tertiary veins reticulate. Stipules present, caducous. |
Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers arranged in an inflorescence, axillary, sometimes just behind the leaves, unisexual, on different trees, pedicels 2--3 mm long. |
Fruits : | Fruit fleshy berry, 0.5 - 1 cm, not splitting. |
Seeds : | Seeds 4 - 8, covered by a sour, edible aril. |