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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
Diagnostic characters : | Large deciduous trees with scaly bark. Twigs re-brown hairy when young becoming glabrous. Exudate white, aromatic. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, clustered at ends of branches, leaflets opposite, base asymmetric. Stipules free, awl-shaped. Flowers yellowish-green. Fruit a drupe with a hard stone. |
Habit : | A medium tree, up to 18 m high, 25 cm in diameter. Branches ascending to the main trunk. Crown small and rounded. |
Trunk & bark : | Bole straight, and cylindrical. Bark smooth, grey. Inner bark yellowish-white. |
Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, covered with persistent brown hairs. |
Exudates : | Aromatic white resinous sap. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound imparipinnate, alternate spiral, leaflets opposite, 5-9 by 2-7 cm sized, ovate-elliptic, apex acute slightly acuminate, base rounded, some slightly asymmetric, margin entire slightly dentate with hairs clustered on margin, rachis 27-30 cm long, blade papery, glabrescent on both sides. Midrib flat above, primary vein single, secondary veins oblique to the midrib, widely parallel, tertiary veins oblique. Rachis 26-28 cm long. Stipule inconspicuous with very long hairs. |
Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers small, greenish-white, grouped in axillary cymose inflorescence. |
Fruits : | Fruit is drupe, ovoid-oblong, nearly rounded at both ends. Dull yellow when mature. |
Seeds : | 1 seeds. |