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Habit : | Trees up to 20 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish brown, lenticellate. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, minuetly grey tomentose. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, imparipinnate, to 25 cm long, alternate, spiral, pulvinate; rachis 4.2-11.5 cm long; petiolule 0.5-0.8 cm long; leaflets 5-7, alternate, to 12 x 5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base cuneate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 5-8 pairs, with hairy domatia in axills; tertiary_nerves admedially ramified. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers polygamodioecious, creamy yellow; male flowers in panicles; female flowers in spikes or racemes. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, oblong, ca. 1.8 cm long, white; seeds 1-2, covered with white pulpy aril. |