Description

Evergreen to semi-deciduous tree up to 16 m high with a somewhat rounded crown. Bark greyish-to reddish-brown, rough or smooth; young branchlets glabrous to shortly pubescent. Leaves paripinnate, leaflets 3-6 pairs, opposite, oblong or obovate, coriaceous, glabrous to shortly pubescent, base cuneate, apex rounded or retuse, margin entire. Inflorescence a dense subglobose panicle, usually cauliflorous on older branches but occasionally terminal. Flowers bisexual, deep red or scarlet or crimson. Fruit a pod, oblong, flattened, glabrous, with numerous small resin-filled vesicles in the pod wall, several-seeded, tardily dehiscent leaving the dorsal and ventral sutures attached to the pedicel. Seeds light brown, ovoid, oblong or oblique with a large yellow basal aril.