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Habit : | Deciduous trees up to 28 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark reddish brown, exfoliating in large flakes when old; blaze deep pink with white streak. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets terete, lenticellate, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, paripinnate, 23-90 cm long, clustered at twig ends; rachis terete, pulvinate, 60 cm or more, glabrous; petiolule 0.7-2.0 cm long; leaflets 6-15 pairs, alternate, subopposite or opposite, 5-15 x 2-6 cm, lanceolate to narrow ovate, apex caudate-acuminate and slightly curved, base asymmetric, margin entire, sometime crenate when young, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, glabrous, shining above, pale beneath; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 12-16 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence terminal panicles, drooping; flowers white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, elliptic, 5-valved, to 2 cm long, with white patches; seeds many, papery winged. |