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| Habit : | Large deciduous tree, up to 30 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, smooth or flaky when old; blaze pink. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Cut end of bark with sticky red sap. |
| Leaves : | Leaves compound, trifoliate, alternate, spiral; stipule to 0.6 cm long, linear lanceolate, caducous; rachis 5-15.5 cm long, pulvinate at base, terete, glabrous; petiolule of side leaflets to 1 cm long, middle one to 3.5 cm long; leaflets elliptic to broadly elliptic, usually middle leaflet slightly larger, 7.5-13 x 3.5-9 cm, apex caudate or caudate-acuminate, base acute to rounded, margin crenate, coriaceous; secondary_nerves 5-7 pairs, forked with glabrous domatia in axils; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent, not prominent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary panicles; flowers unisexual, dioecious, green. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, 1.3 cm across; seeds 6-8, oblong, trigonous. |