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| Habit : | Large deciduous trees, often buttressed, up to 25 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark fissured, dark brown; blaze cream. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous, lenticellate. |
| Leaves : | Leaves compound, imparipinnate, opposite, decussate, to 60 cm long; rachis 6-16.5 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; leaflets 3-5 pairs, opposite with odd terminal one; petiolule 0.8-1.5 cm long, canaliculate; lamina 5-15 x 2.5-7.5 cm, elliptic, apex caudate (acumen 1.5-4 cm long) base cuneate to asymmetric, margin entire, chartaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 8-10 pairs gradually curved; tertiary_nerves weakly percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence lax terminal panicles, flowers brownish purple, yellow within, petals wooly. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, 4-angled, contorted, to 40 cm long; seeds many, winged. |