Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Large to medium-sized trees.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves compound (even-pinnate) rarely simple. Alternate. Leaflets subopposite or alternate. Leaflet margins entire, rachis ± winged. Petioles swollen at base. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in terminal, paniculate inflorescences. Flowers unisexual (and the plants monoecious), actinomorphic. Calyx of 5 sepals, broadly imbricate, unequal. Corolla of 5 petals, with a 2-lobed, pilose scale on inner surface at base. Stamens 8; filaments pilose at base; anthers ellipsoid, introrse, sterile in pistillate flowers. Ovary superior, ovoid, rudimentary in staminate flowers, 3-lobed and 3-celled in pistillate flowers; ovules 1 per cell; stigma 3-lobed.

Fruit: Fruit a fleshy; indehiscent schizocarp with 1–2(3) mericarps developing; these subglobose to obovoid. Seeds 1 per mericarp; without an aril.

Ploidy:

Habitat:

Elevation Range: