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| Habit : | Large deciduous trees, buttressed, up to 40 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey covered with caducous conical prickles, flaky. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branches horizontal, branchlets clustered spirally at nodes, terete, armed. |
| Leaves : | Leaves compound, digitate, clustered at twig ends; stipules lanceolate, caducous; petiole 12-30 cm long, terete, glabrous; leaflets 3-8, lamina (4-) 8-16 x (1.5-) 3-7 cm, narrow elliptic to oblanceolate, apex caudate to acuminate, base cuneate to acute, margin entire, glabrous, chartaceous; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves ca. 14 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers solitary or in fascicles, usually on leafless branches, dark red. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule woody, 5-valved, densely wooly within; seeds many. |