Description

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Growth Form: Trees.

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Leaves: Leaves compound (2–3 times pinnately). Alternate. Surfaces pubescence a mixture of simple and stellate hairs. Leaflet margins dentate or ocasionally entire. Petiolate, leaflets with petiolules. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers numerous in axillary panicles. Flowers bisexual (perfect) and staminate on a single plant. Calyx 5(6)-lobed, cleft nearly to base. Corolla of 5(6) petals; petals distinct, imbricate. Staminal filaments connate into a narrowly cylindrical tube, becoming somewhat expanded toward apex, 4–10 mm long, 10–12–ribbed, apex with 2–4-lobed appendages, as many as or up to twice as many as anthers; anthers 10(12), inserted on margin of or just inside filament tube. Ovary superior, 4–8-celled; ovules 2 per cell; style capitate or coroniform; stigma on 4–8 erect or incurved stigmatic lobes.

Fruit: Fruit drupaceous; endocarp thick; bony; hollow at base and apex. Seeds oblong; laterally compressed; without an aril; seed coat leathery; sometimes slightly fleshy around hilum.

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