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Dioecious deciduous shrub or tree, (3–)7–24 m. tall; bark grey, smooth; slash orange. Leaves yellow when young, turning pink-flushed then pale green; leaf-rhachis 3–12 cm. long, the lowest leaflets near the base forming pseudo-stipules1.5–4 cm. long; leaflets in (1?–)2–3(–4?) pairs, oblanceolate, elliptic, ovate or lanceolate, 3–25 cm. long, 1.5–11 cm. wide, the uppermost the largest, the lowermost much smaller, acute or obtuse at the apex, cuneate to truncate at the base, the margin sometimes undulate, glabrous save for main nervation beneath; main lateral nerves in 4–14 pairs. Inflorescences terminal, axillary or cauliflorous; main axis 5–15 cm. long, elongating to 30 cm. in fruit, usually branched, the branches 3–5 cm. long, pseudo-racemose with flowers single or in short cymes; pedicels 2–9 mm. long. Flowers brownish yellow, yellowish white, pinkish yellow or brownish red; sepals 4, ovate, 1.5–2 mm. long, spreading, pubescent outside, nearly glabrous inside; petals lacking; disk yellow. Stamens 5, well exserted; filaments 3–8 mm. long, glabrous; staminodes with filaments 1 mm. long. Ovary yellow-pubescent; style 2(–3)-lobed, glabrous, drying dark coloured. Fruit orange, drying ferruginous pubescent, of 1–2 mericarps, single ones usually asymmetrically ovoid, 2–2.5 cm. long; pulp fleshy. Fig. 18.

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Dioecious deciduous shrub or tree, (3–)7–24 m. tall; bark grey, smooth; slash orange. Leaves yellow when young, turning pink-flushed then pale green; leaf-rhachis 3–12 cm. long, the lowest leaflets near the base forming pseudo-stipules1.5–4 cm. long; leaflets in (1?–)2–3(–4?) pairs, oblanceolate, elliptic, ovate or lanceolate, 3–25 cm. long, 1.5–11 cm. wide, the uppermost the largest, the lowermost much smaller, acute or obtuse at the apex, cuneate to truncate at the base, the margin sometimes undulate, glabrous save for main nervation beneath; main lateral nerves in 4–14 pairs. Inflorescences terminal, axillary or cauliflorous; main axis 5–15 cm. long, elongating to 30 cm. in fruit, usually branched, the branches 3–5 cm. long, pseudo-racemose with flowers single or in short cymes; pedicels 2–9 mm. long. Flowers brownish yellow, yellowish white, pinkish yellow or brownish red; sepals 4, ovate, 1.5–2 mm. long, spreading, pubescent outside, nearly glabrous inside; petals lacking; disk yellow. Stamens 5, well exserted; filaments 3–8 mm. long, glabrous; staminodes with filaments 1 mm. long. Ovary yellow-pubescent; style 2(–3)-lobed, glabrous, drying dark coloured. Fruit orange, drying ferruginous pubescent, of 1–2 mericarps, single ones usually asymmetrically ovoid, 2–2.5 cm. long; pulp fleshy. Fig. 18.

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Dioecious deciduous shrub or tree, (3–)7–24 m. tall; bark grey, smooth; slash orange. Leaves yellow when young, turning pink-flushed then pale green; leaf-rhachis 3–12 cm. long, the lowest leaflets near the base forming pseudo-stipules1.5–4 cm. long; leaflets in (1?–)2–3(–4?) pairs, oblanceolate, elliptic, ovate or lanceolate, 3–25 cm. long, 1.5–11 cm. wide, the uppermost the largest, the lowermost much smaller, acute or obtuse at the apex, cuneate to truncate at the base, the margin sometimes undulate, glabrous save for main nervation beneath; main lateral nerves in 4–14 pairs. Inflorescences terminal, axillary or cauliflorous; main axis 5–15 cm. long, elongating to 30 cm. in fruit, usually branched, the branches 3–5 cm. long, pseudo-racemose with flowers single or in short cymes; pedicels 2–9 mm. long. Flowers brownish yellow, yellowish white, pinkish yellow or brownish red; sepals 4, ovate, 1.5–2 mm. long, spreading, pubescent outside, nearly glabrous inside; petals lacking; disk yellow. Stamens 5, well exserted; filaments 3–8 mm. long, glabrous; staminodes with filaments 1 mm. long. Ovary yellow-pubescent; style 2(–3)-lobed, glabrous, drying dark coloured. Fruit orange, drying ferruginous pubescent, of 1–2 mericarps, single ones usually asymmetrically ovoid, 2–2.5 cm. long; pulp fleshy. Fig. 18.