Talisia nervosa Radlk.

Polygamous shrubs or small trees, usually less than 5 m tall; trunk to 6 cm d.b.h., unbranched (unless damaged). Leaves pinnately compound, clustered near the apex, often 1 m or more long, lacking reduced leaflets at the apex; petioles ca. 25 cm long, terete; petiolules swollen, 5-10 mm long; leaflets usually 5-8 pairs, oblong-elliptic, acute at the apex and base, 20-45 cm long, 6.5-13 cm wide, gla-brous above, glabrous to puberulent beneath. Thyrses small, arranged in a panicle to 70 cm long, widely branched, the major branches ribbed; branches, pedicels and calyces puberulent to tomentulose; pedicels short, to 2 mm long, articulate be-low the calyx. Flowers white; calyx bowl shaped, to ca. 2 mm long, 5-lobed to about the middle, the lobes indurate, acute, ciliate; petals 5, oblong, 3-5 mm long, acute to blunt at the apex, spreading above the calyx, glabrous, the scale exceeding the petal, sericeous, tufted and slightly spreading at the apex; disc raised, 5-an-gulate, the points alternating with the petals; stamens 5 or 8, 3 often reduced or aborted, equalling the scales, to 5 mm long, the filaments weakly pubescent, shorter than the anther, the anthers oblong, 1-4 mm long, the connective beaked at the apex; ovary densely pubescent, those of the staminate flowers less than 2 mm long, the style lacking, the 3 minute stigmas hidden by the pubescence of the ovary; bisexual flowers with the ovary narrowly ovoid, sericeous, the style about as long as the ovary, the stigma capitate, held at about the level of the anthers. Fruits ellipsoid to globose, brown, sharply apiculate at the apex, sparsely pubescent, minutely lenticellate, usually 2-3.5 cm long, with a 2-3 mm thick, woody pericarp; seeds ellipsoid, the side flat if more than one, 1.5-2.5 cm long, embedded in a firm or jellylike, whitish to orange mesocarp.

It is a tropical plant. It grows as an under-storey tree in the forest.