A slow-growing, large tree that reaches up to 45 m in height and 1m d.b.h. The crown is quite round, sometimes open, with dense foliage. The bole is straight with slim, ascending branches and a smooth, grayish brown outer bark bearing abundant lenticels. The leaves are alternate, petiolate, imparipinnate, and 8 to 20 cm long including the petiole. The petiole is 1 to 4 cm long and the rachis 5 to 15 cm long. The rachis and petiolules are pubescent and terete. The flowers are whitish, pubescent, mediumsized, entomophilous, and grouped in simple axillary or terminal racemes 20 cm long. The flower has 10 stamens, free or shortly united at the base, which fall with the petals. The anthers are uniform, acuminate,and longer than the filaments. The ovary is stipitate, sparsely villous, with one or two suspended ovules. The style is short, filiform, and incurved and has a well-defined terminal stigma. The fruit is a flat, indehiscent, samaroid, winged pod that is stipitate, narrowly obovate, 7 to 11 cm long, and 2 cm wide; it narrows toward the base.

Antibacterial, antiseptic, expectorant, fungicide and stimulant.

Center for Wood Anatomy Research
Tropical Plant Database
PIER
AgroForestryTree Database

Alpha-curcumene, alpha-pinene, benzaldehyde, benzyl alcohol, beta-elemene, caryophyllene, cinnamaldehyde, delta-cadinene, eugenol, ferulic acid, oleanolic acid, p-cymene, tannin, vanillin (plant); benzoic acid, benzyl-benzoate, cinnamic acid (gum); benzyl-cinnamate, farnesol, nerolidol (gum, plant); coumarin (seed)

For asthma, colds and flu, rheumatism and external wounds (leaves and fruit); for abscesses, asthma, bronchitis, catarrh, headache, rheumatism, sores, sprains, tuberculosis, venereal diseases, and wounds (sap)