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| Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees ca. 6 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark corky, greyish, fissured; blaze yellowish. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves compound, imparipinnate, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends, up to 48 x 13 cm, pulvinate; rachis slightly angular; leaflets 5 to 25 in pairs with terminal one, increasing in size towards the end, lamina 3-9 x 2-5 cm and the lowermost pair ca.1 cm long, sessile, generally ovate except the lowermost polygonal in shape, margin and apex prominently spiny dentate, base cordate, coriaceous, shiny above, pale beneath, 5-7 ribbed at base. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence long terminal racemes, ca. 30 cm long; flowers yellow, pedicels ca. 10 mm long. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, glaucous, purple, 1-3 seeded. |