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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Evergreen trees, bole sometimes fluted, twigs hairy. Leaves imparipinnate, with many translucent dots. Flowers bisexual in flat-topped inflorescences. Fruits berry-like orange. |
| Habit : | Evergreen tree up to 10 m tall. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bole straight, sometimes fluted, bark grey, smooth. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, hairy. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves compound, imparipinnate, alternate and spiral, leaflets 3-8 pairs, alternate, ovate to lanceolate, apex acute, base asymmetrical, glabrous or with fine hairs, minute translucent dots present, margin entire. Primary vein single, secondary veins oblique, tertiary veins reticulate. Stipules absent. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers arranged in a many-flowered inflorescence, terminal, bisexual, pedicels up to 3 mm long. |
| Fruits : | Fruit berry-like, up to 1 cm in diameter, fleshy. |
| Seeds : | Seed(s) 1-3. |