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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
Habit : | Large trees, buttressed, up to 30 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Trunk clear bole; bark brownish, lenticellate. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, ferruginous tomentose. |
Exudates : | Resin dark brown to black oozing from cut end of trunk. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, imparipinnate, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends, to 40 cm; rachis ferruginous pubescent; leaflets 3-9 pair with odd one at apex, increasing in size towards apex; petiolule 0.3-0.7 cm long; lamina 5-15 x 2.5-7 cm usually oblong, sometimes ovate, apex acuminate, base asymmetric-rounded; margin serrate or serrulate, coriaceous, rusty tomentose or pubescent beneath, glabrous above; secondary_nerves strong, 11-18 pairs; tertiary_nerves weakly percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary panicles, rusty tomentose. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, ellipsoid, to 5 cm long; seeds 1-3. |