Tree, up to 30 m high, with buttresses. Branchlets c. 0.75 cm thick, glabrous, the velvety young parts excepted; pith with many minute vascular strands, closely appressed to the wood-cylinder. Stipules absent. Leaves 3-8-jugate. Leaflets narrowly oblong, 5.5-20 by 2.5-8 cm, chartaceous, glabrous but for the minutely pubescent midrib above and midrib and Main nerves beneath; base rounded (to subcordate); margin entire; apex rounded, rather abruptly, shortly and acute-acuminate; nerves 11-24 pairs (angle 60-70-90°), slightly irregular, strongly curving towards the margin, indistinctly arching remote from it; intermediate veins strongly developed. Inflorescences (female unknown) axillary, laxly paniculate, 15-48 cm long, pubescent towards the tips; partial panicles up to 8 cm long, long-stalked, cymose, c. 15-flowered, flowers clustered; bracts persistent, deltoid, 1 mm long. Flowers (female unknown) sub-sessile, 6 mm long, glabrous, pink. Calyx 2½-3 mm high. Petals thickened towards the apex, the inflexed apiculum much thickened and rugose. Stamens glabrous, c. 4.5 mm long, connate for c. 1½ mm. Disk 1 mm high, cushion-shaped, faintly 6-lobed, deepened towards the centre, narrowed at base, long-pilose on the upper surface; no pistil. Infructescences racemose to paniculate, 10-25 cm long, with 5-7 fruits, glabrescent; main branches up to 5 cm long, with 1-2 fruits; calyx flat, faintly 3-lobed to circular, 8-10 mm diam., margin slightly undulate; remains of a 6-lobed, long-fimbriate disk present. Fruits ellipsoid, tapering at both ends, rounded 3-angular to circular in cross-section, 4-5 by 2-2.5 cm, glabrous; angle-ribs of the pyrene acute, surface of the lids slightly undulate; lids c. 1 mm thick. Seed 1, sterile cells slightly reduced.
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A tree. It grows 14 m tall. The leaves have long leaf stalks. The leaves have 6-10 pairs of leaflets. The flowers are olive green. The fruit are purple.
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