Botanical description ⁴

Bole: Medium. To 20 m. Bark: Brown/red-brown. Peeling in strips. Slash: Pink on older trees; white on younger. Leaf: Odd-pinnate. 6 - 8 pairs leaflets. To 40 cm long. Alternate. Lflt: Opposite. Petiole: 12 - 13 cm. Winged and Channelled. Leaflets: sessile. Lamina: Medium. 12 - 15 × 3.5 - 5.2 cm. Oblong. Rounded/cordate. Acuminate. Serrate. Hairy. Simple. Domatia: Absent. Glands: Absent. Stipules: Fused with petiole to create wings. Thorns & Spines: Absent. Flower: Orange-brown/white. Terminal drooping panicle 30 - 60 × 20 - 30 cm. Dioecious/hermaphrodite. Fruit: Achenes brown.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Howard, R.A., some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=10360789
2. (c) Howard, R.A., some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=10357165
3. (c) Howard, R.A., some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=10356173
4. Adapted by Patrick Furtado from a work by (c) Unknown, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/23284959

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• African Plants - a photo guide
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• New Zealand Plant Conservation Network
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
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