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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Tall trees up to 15 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark greyish, lenticellate; blaze yellow with red speckles. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, with scars of fallen leaves; apical bud tomentose. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, imparipinnate, alternate, spiral, crowded towards twig ends, to 1 m long; rachis pulvinate, subterete, glabrous; petiolule 0.3-0.7 cm long, glabrous; leaflets 11-21 pairs, alternate or subopposite, increasing size towards apex, 5-14 x 3-5 cm, elliptic-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, apex acute or acuminate, base asymmetric, margin entire and revolute, glaucous, tomentose beneath when young, later glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 8-16 pairs, glands present at the fork near margin; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence terminal or axillary, branched panicles, drooping; flowers small, polygamous, greenish-yellow; pedicel ca. 0.2 cm long. |
Fruit& seed : | Samara, with large membranouos wings; seed one, pendulous. |