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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
Diagnostic characters : | Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, leaflets alternate, with translucent glandular dots. Flowers bisexual. Fruits berry, white to pink. |
Habit : | Evergreen shrubs or tree up to 7 m tall. |
Trunk & bark : | Bole straight or sometimes branched from base, bark greenish-grey, smooth. |
Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, very finely hairy. |
Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, alternate and spiral, finely hairy, imparipinnate, with translucent glandular dots; leaflets alternate 8-15 pairs, ovate or lanceolate, apex acute, base asymmetrical, margin toothed or not. Midrib single, secondary veins obtuse, tertiary veins obscure. Stipules absent. |
Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers arranged in a many-flowered inflorescence, terminal or in the upper leaf axils, bisexual, pedicels up to 3 mm long. |
Fruits : | Fruit fleshy berry white to pink, up to 2 cm, gland-dotted. |
Seeds : | Seed(s) 1 or 2. |