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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Trees up to 18 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark brownish, lenticellate; blaze pink with orange speckles. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets stout, angular to subterete, lenticellate, rusty tomentose. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, imparipinnate, alternate, spiral; rachis terete, rusty tomentose, pulvinate; petiolule 0.2- 1.5 cm long, rusty tomentose; leaflets 3-7 pairs with one terminal leaflet, subopposite or opposite, 6.5-15 x 2.5-5 cm, lanceolate to ovate - oblong, apex gradually acuminate, base asymmetric and acute or rounded, margin entire, sometimes remotely dentate, thinly coriaceous, tomentose on nerves beneath; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves ascending; tertiary_nerves coarsely reticulate. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence terminal and axillary panicles, tomentose; flowers greenish, sessile. |
Fruit& seed : | Drupe, globose, 0.5 cm across; seed one, smooth. |