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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Large deciduous trees up to 20 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Trunk fluted; bark grey, irregularly scaly; blaze pink. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, pubescent. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, paripinnate, alternate, spiral; rachis pulvinate, glabrous; petiolule up to 0.3 cm long, glabrous, leaflets 2-3 pairs, opposite, increasing in size towards apex, 4-26 x 1.8-9 cm, variable in shape, elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate - obovate, apex rounded, sometimes emarginate, base asymmetric, cuneate to rounded, margin entire, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; midrib thinly raised above; secondary_nerves ca. 16 pairs, straight and curved near margin; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary panicles; flowers polygamodioecious, subsessile. |
Fruit& seed : | Drupe, 1.5 x 1 cm, ellipsoid, apiculate, echinate; seeds 1-2 enclosed in aril. |