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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Trees up to 12 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark brownish, smooth, shallowly fissured when mature; blaze cream. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets angular to subterete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, imparipinnate, opposite, decussate; stipule interpetiolar, caducous and leaving scar; rachis pulvinate, terete, glabrous; petiolule 0.5 long for lateral leaflets and 2 cm long with swollen apex in terminal one, canaliculate, glabrous; leaflets opposite, usually 3 or rarely 5, 7-13 x 3-5 cm, elliptic to elliptic-oblong to ovate, apex acuminate, base acute, margin serrate, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib thinly raised above; secondary_nerves 4-8 pairs, gradually curved and ascending towards apex; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence terminal or axillary panicle; flowers cream; pedicel ca. 0.1 cm long. |
Fruit& seed : | Berry, globose, 3-celled; seeds 3. |