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Description:
Andromonoecious, unarmed, nearly glabrous, terrestrial, deciduous trees. Stems well branched, leptocaulous, with both long and short shoots. Leaves alternate, petiolate, the bases stipulate and adnate; blades palmately compound; leaflets (3 or)5–7(–9), obovate or oblong to elliptic, chartaceous, the margins serrulate to aristate-toothed, petiolulate. Inflorescence terminal, a corymbose panicle of umbels with a short primary axis, ultimate units umbellules; bracts caducuous, triangular; pedicels relatively short and slender, unarticulated. Calyx lobes 5, triangularly toothed; petals 5, valvate, free; stamens 5; carpels 2, ovary inferior, styles connate, disc convex. Fruits drupes, glabrous, globose, transversely compressed laterally; endocarp crustaceous. Endosperm uniform. 2n = 48.
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