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Habit : | Trees up to 10 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, large lenticelled; blaze pink. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets hollow, angular, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, imparipinnate, alternate, spiral, to 35 cm long; rachis 7-13 cm long, pulvinate at base and inflated at junction of leaflets, glabrous; leaflets opposite, 4-5 pairs, sometimes 6 pairs with terminal one; petiolule 0.4-1.5 cm long, canaliculate; lamina 4.5-15 x 2-7.5 cm, lanceolate to narrow-ovate, apex acuminate, base asymmetric, margin entire, chartaceous, glaucous beneath; midrib flat or slightly raised above; secondary_nerves 7-12 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence elongated panicle; flowers white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, globose or ellipsoid, pointed, 1.9 cm long, orange-red when ripe; seed 1. |