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Habit : | Shrubs or small trees, up to 5 m tall. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, lenticellate, pubescent. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, imparipinnate, 10-28 cm long, alternate, spiral, often crowded at twig ends, pulvinate; rachis 4-12.5 cm, terete, pubescent; petiolule 0.1-0.3 cm long and the terminal one little longer; leaflets opposite or subopposite, 4-5 pairs sometimes 6 pairs with one at terminal, 2-10 x 1.3-4.5 cm, elliptic, apex acute to acuminate, base acute, cuneate or attenuate, margin entire at base and coarsely serrate towards apex, chartaceous, pubescent beneath at least on nerves; midrib thinly raised above; secondary_nerves 5-9 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary panicles; flowers white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, globose, 0.7 cm across, with 5 pyrenes; seeds 1-2 per pyrene. |