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Habit : | Large trees up to 16 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark large corky lenticellate; blaze cream with orange speckels. |
Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, trifoliate, alternate, spiral; rachis canaliculate in cross section, pulvinate, glabrous; petiolule 0.3-1.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section; leaflets 7.6-25.4 x 3.8-10.2 cm, narrow elliptic, apex long acuminate with blunt tip, base slightly attenuate, margin entire, coriaceous; midrib nearly flat above; intramarginal nerves present; secondary_nerves nearly straight parallel; tertiary_nerves usually admedially ramified. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence panicles, terminal or axillary; flowers unisexual, dioecious, sessile. |
Fruit& seed : | Berry, fleshy, globose, 2 celled, gland dotted; seeds 1-2 per cell. |