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Habit : | Tall deciduous trees, up to 30 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark reddish-brown with thin irregular flakes; blaze reddish. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, lenticellate, greyish velvety pubescent. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, paripinnate, 12-50 cm long, alternate, spiral, pulvinate; rachis 16 cm long, pubescent; petiolule 0.2-1 cm long; leaflets 10-24, alternate or subopposite, (sometimes 1 or 2 pairs when young), 5-13 x 2.5-6.5 cm, often lower leaflets are smaller than above, narrow ovate to lanceolate, apex narrowly acuminate, base asymmetric, margin entire, chartaceous, pubescent beneath; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs, often forked; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate or obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence in terminal panicles, greyish velvety pubescent; flowers cream. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, globose, to 4 cm across, 4-5 valved, glabrous; seeds many, broadly winged at base. |