| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Meliaceae |
| Habit | Medium sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, bark reddish-brown, smooth; blaze dull red; branchlets covered with orange-brown scales with fimbriate margins. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, estipulate; rachis 10-25 cm long, stout, grooved above, swollen at base, covered with lepidote scales; leaflets 7-9, opposite, estipellate; petiolule 6-11 mm, stout, covered with lepidote scales, grooved above; leaflets 5-11 x 3-4 cm, elliptic-obovate or obovate, base acute or cuneate, apex acute or obtusely acute, margin entire, lateral nerves 9-12 pairs, parallel, prominent, flowers ploygamo-dioecious, yellow, small, in axillary branching panicles; fruit a berry, 2 cm long, subglobose, obovate, densely minutely scaly; seeds 1-2. |