A tall fast-growing tree with crown wide, stratified and irregular with a few thick, horizontal branches, the bole is straight, sometimes channeled at base.
Branching is sympodial.
The bark is grey, blackish or greyish brown, rough and narrowly ffissured vertically with corky ridges.
Leaves :
Decussate, long petiolate, compound, digitate, 5 unequal leaflets, the central leaflet is the larger. Petioles pulvinate.
They are oblong, obovate or oblong-ovate, with acute or acuminate apex, entire margin and obtuse base.
Leaflet surface is lepidoteadaxially and abaxially, sometimes it can be glabrous.
Flowers :
A staminode present.
Anther dehiscence is longitudinal.
The gynoecium is surrounded by a thick nectary.
The ovary is linear, bilocular with many ovules biseriate in each locule.
Style is long with bifid stigma.
Fruit :
Long, slender, linear-cylindrical, brown, bivalve, loculicidal capsule, attenuate at both ends.
The calyx is persistent.
Seeds are whitish, thin, with broad, hyaline-membranous wings.
Flowering and Fruiting Time : January - April
Significance : Generally planted as an ornamental in gardens.
