Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Large deciduous trees up to 20 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark greyish, letnicellate, scaly when mature; blaze yellowish. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets quadrangular, pubescent, lenticellate. |
| Leaves : | Leaves compound, usually trifoliate or rarely 5-foliate (with 2 small leaflets), opposite, decussate; rachis pulvinate, planoconvex in cross section, winged, minutely pubescent; leaflets sessile, 7-17 x 2-6.5 cm, narrow elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base cuneate, margin serrate or entire, chartaceous, glaucous and minutely pubescent or glabrous beneath; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 10-20 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence terminal panicles, minutely pubescent; flowers zygomorphic, blue white tinged. |
| Fruit& seed : | Drupe, smooth, globose, 0.9 cm across, purplish black; seeds 4. |