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Habit : | Trees up to 20 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark shallowly fissured, brownish; blaze brownish. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, with dense indumentum of reddish-brown lacerated scales and stellate hairs. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, usually imparipinnate, ca. 60 cm long, alternate, spiral, pulvinate; rachis and petiolules (0.2 cm long) with lacerated scales and stellate hairs; leaflets to 5-15, opposite or subopposite, 7-15 x 2.5-5 cm long, narrowly elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base subcordate, rounded or cuneate, margin entire or irregularly toothed, glabrous above except on nerves when mature, densely covered with stellate hairs beneath; midrib canaliculate; secondary_nerves 10-14 pairs, prominent; tertiary_nerves obliquely percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary panicles, to 18 cm long; flowers globose, minute, fragrant; pedicels slender, densely covered with reddish-brown lacerated scales and stellate hairs. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, subglobose, to 2.5 cm long, densely covered with reddish-brown lacerated scales and stellate hairs; seed one, arillate. |