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Habit : | Large buttressed trees up to 25 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark brown, irregularly flaky when mature; inner bark cream. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, lenticellate, minutely stellate hairy when young, later glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, usually imparipinnate, sometimes paripinnate, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends, 15-40 cm long; rachis terete, pulvinate; petiolule stout, 0.5-0.8 cm long, canaliculate; leaflets 4-8 (-10) pairs, alternate, 8-18.5 (-20.3) x 2.5-7 cm, lanceolate or narrow elliptic-oblong, apex gradually acuminate with blunt tip or subacute, sometimes obtuse, base rounded to acute, sometimes asymmetric, margin entire, coriaceous, glaucous beneath, glabrous; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves 10-20 pairs, nearly straight and curved near margin; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence terminal and axillary, much branched panicles; flowers sessile. |
Fruit& seed : | Schizocarp, globose, tubercled, red, 1.5 cm across; seed one. |