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| Habit : | Trees slightly buttressed, up to 25 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark reddish brown, flaky lenticellate; blaze pinkish brown. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets, slender, densely covered with lepidote scales. |
| Leaves : | Leaves compound, imparipinnate, alternate, spiral; rachis 4.5-7 cm long, angled, lepidote; petiolule 0.4- 1cm, usually terminal one longer than others, canaliculate; leaflets 2 to 3 opposite or subopposite pairs and one at terminal, 6-12 x 2.4-5 cm, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, apex bluntly acute to acuminate, base acute or sometimes slightly asymmetric, margin entire, chartaceous, densely minute brown lepidote_scaly beneath, smooth above; midrib slightly raised; secondary_nerves slender, 6-12 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual; inflorescence axillary or lateral panicles, lepidote_scaly. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, 2.5 cm long, subglobose or asymmetric with depressed apex, longitudinally wrinkled when dry, 3-loculed, lepidote_scaly; seeds 1 per locule. |