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Habit : | Trees up to 20 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, fissured; blaze cream. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, imparipinnate, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends, 50 (-90) cm long; rachis pulvinate, 30 cm or more long, often lepidote_scaly; leaflets opposite to subopposite, 4-8 pairs with terminal one, petiolule 0.4 to 1 cm long; lamina 7-18 (-22) x 3-6.5 (-10) cm, oblong-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base asymmetric, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib slightly raised above, stout beneath; secondary_nerves slender; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence panicles; flowers polygamous. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, subglobose, to 3 cm across, coriaceous, pale reddish, 3-celled; seed 1, orange red. |