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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
Diagnostic characters : | Deciduous trees, bark fissured. Leaves compound, leaflets opposite. Flowers unisexual on the same tree, minute. Fruit a winged nut. |
Habit : | Deciduous tree up to 20 m tall. |
Trunk & bark : | Bole straight. Bark grey or grey-brown, deeply fissured. |
Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, glabrous. |
Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, alternate and spiral, impar- or pari-pinnate, leaflets narrowly ovate or elliptic, with yellow glandular dots, margin entire. Primary vein single, secondary veins obtuse, tertiary veins somewhat reticulate. Stipules absent. |
Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers arranged in a many-flowered inflorescence, axillary, on leafless twigs, unisexual, on the same tree, pedicels up to 3 mm long. |
Fruits : | Fruit up to 3.5 cm long, 3-winged nutlet, not splitting open. |
Seeds : | Seed 1. |