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Description:
Andromonoecious, unarmed, stellate-pubescent, terrestrial, evergreen shrubs or trees. Stems branched, pachycaulous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, the bases stipulate and adnate; blades large, 2–4-pinnately compound; leaflets ovate, elliptic, or oblong, subcoriaceous to chartaceous, the margins entire, sub-sessile to petiolulate. Inflorescences terminal, erect or spreading, paniculate, the ultimate units umbellules; bracts triangular; pedicels short to medium in length, thick, unarticulated. Calyx of 5 minute teeth; petals 5, valvate, free; stamens 5; carpels 2, ovaries inferior, styles connate to the middle or free and recurved, the disc convex. Fruits drupes, stellate-pubescent, globose, laterally compressed; endocarp crustaceous. Endosperm ruminate.
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