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| Habit : | Small trees, up to 12 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish-grey, soft often covered by many corky lenticels. |
| Leaves : | Leaves compound, 2-3_pinnate, with opposite pinnae, very large 90-150 cm long, almost triangular in outline; primary rachis stout, cylindric; secondary and tertiary rachis striate; petiolule 5.5 cm long, striate; leaflets 2-4 pairs with terminal odd one, opposite, lamina 7-17 x 3.5-10 cm, ovate or elliptic, apex caudate-acuminate, base rounded or asymmetric, margin entire, chartaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above; 1-2 pairs of secondary_nerves arising from base; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers in terminal racemes, large, reddish-purple and pinkish-yellow within. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule 30-90 cm long, flat, purple brown; seeds many, flattened with broad hyaline papery wings. |