Walsura pinnata Hassk.

Trees, up to 18(–37) m, girth to 0.76(–1.22) m, bole to 11 (–24) m; outer bark smooth and thin, light grey-brown, often with lenticels, falling in parts to reveal pink-brown inner bark; sapwood very pink to pale brown to pink-yellow, with slight aroma similar to that of the fruits. Leafy twigs slender, 2.5–8 mm diam., glabrous with grey-brown usually lenticellate bark. Leaves (9, if leaf undivided, to) 14–70 cm long, undivided to 2-(or 3-)jugate; petiole 2.5–11 cm long, 1–4 mm thick, semi-terete and flattened adaxially, glabrous or extremely sparsely pubescent, occasionally lenticellate near the base; petiolules semi-terete and flattened adaxially, those of lateral leaflets 0.4–1.4 cm long and 0.5–1.5 mm thick, geniculate just below base of lamina. Lamina of distal pair leaflet 2–11.5 by 5.5–25 cm, the basal leaflets usually conspicuously smaller and the; terminal a little larger, all narrowly oblanceolate, elliptic or oblong, with cuneate or cuneate-attenuate base and acute to short (< 1.5 cm) acuminate apex, subcoriaceous, adaxial surface with most of veins slightly prominent (in sicco and in vivo), abaxial surface (other than midrib and costae) glaucous (in vivo) and glabrous or very sparsely pubescent on midrib and costae only with most (in sicco) or only to second order (in vivo) veins prominent, (of distal pair leaflet) 7–12(–20) costae on either side of midrib or with incomplete costae also (see above); glands usually present. Inflorescences clustered around shoot apex in axils of caducous, undeveloped leaves and/or rarely solitary in axils of expanded leaves near the shoot apex, (4–)8–35 cm long at anthesis, an open thyrse, branched up to third order (excluding pedicels), first order branches up to 10 cm long, all parts densely puberulous, rachis occasionally lenticellate; pedicel 0.5–2 mm long. Flowers hermaphrodite or male only, just prior to opening ± cylindrical, 2–4 mm long, 2–2.8 mm diam., at maximum opening 3.5–5 mm diam. Calyx 1.2–1.9 mm long, lobes 0.7–1.7 mm long, densely puberulous on outside only. Petals 3–3.8(–4) by 1.5– 1.8(–1.9) mm, imbricate, apex sometimes slightly hooded when mature. Androecium cylindrical or slightly ampulliform, (1.7–)2–4.3 mm long, (1.5–)2–2.5 mm diam., tubular for (l/4–)l/2(–2/3) of length with alternate filaments slightly shorter or all to same length, outside glabrous or very sparsely pubescent on tubular part and sparsely to densely pubescent on filaments, inside glabrous on tubular part and densely pubescent on filaments, filament apex bifid with teeth c. 0.2 mm long, stalk to anther 0.2–0.3 mm long, originating just below base of teeth; anther 0.6–0.8 mm long, occasionally shortly beaked, glabrous or puberulous. Disk 0.2–0.3(–0.4) mm high. Ovary densely hairy or very rarely glabrous. Style cylindrical to narrowly conical, 0.6–0.7(–l.l) mm long and 0.3–0.4 mm diam. at base and 0.3–0.6 mm diam. at top, glabrous. Stigma c. 0.4 mm long, 0.7–1 mm diam., capitate, just below the level of the anthers at anthesis. Fruit a 1– (or 2–)seeded berry, globose (to ovoid), 1.2–2.4(–2.8) cm long, 1.2– 2.4 cm diam., pale green or red in vivo, brown in sicco, sparsely and minutely puberulous, pericarp thin but coriaceous with very thin fibrous endocarp. Seeds ± ellipsoidal, 1.3–42.3 by 0.9–1.3 cm or (in 2-seeded fruit) hemi-ellipsoidal and up to 2.1 cm long, enveloped in a fleshy white or colourless sweet tasting aril which sometimes exudes a clear sticky liquid.

A mid-canopy tree in undisturbed to slightly disturbed or open sites in mixed dipterocarp to sub-montane forests; on hillsides and ridges, but also along rivers and streams; on clay to sandy soils, also on limestone; at elevations up to 1,100 metres.

The fruit are eaten raw.

Can be grown by seedlings.