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Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees, up to 5 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Stems several to single, often with stilt roots. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets angled, glabrescent. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, bipinnate to tripinnate, alternate, spiral; rachis 10-20 cm, long; petiolules 0.5-2.5 cm; stipules purple, sheathing, obovate-oblong, glabrous; leaflets 6-21 x 3.5-7.5 cm, ovate to lanceolate, apex acuminate to caudate, base acute to rounded, margin serrate to dentate, glabrous, chartaceous, drying brown; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 7-12 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence corymbose cymes; calyx green, petals cream. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, depressed, globose, ca.0.7 cm across, purple black; seeds 4-6. |