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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Deciduous trees, bark lenticellate. Leaves trifoliolate. Main stalk of leaf long. Flowers terminal, petals pinkish-white stamens longer than petals, in three whorls, purple. Fruit berry-like, pendulous on long stalks. |
| Habit : | Briefly deciduous tree up to 22 m tall. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bole straight or twisted, bark pale grey with large lenticels. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves trifoliate, alternate and spiral, glabrous, leaflets narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, margin entire. Midrib raised above, secondary veins obtuse, widely parallel, tertiary veins reticulate. Stipules absent. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers arranged in a many-flowered inflorescence, terminal, bisexual, pedicels longer than 0.5 cm. |
| Fruits : | Fruit berry-like up to 35 cm, skin leathery, pulp fleshy, not splitting. |
| Seeds : | Seeds many. |