Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees, 2.5–10 m; trunk sometimes to 1 m diam.; bark scaly; branches many, spreading, smooth; crown dense, rounded.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves compound (even-pinnate). Opposite. Leaves (4–)6–10 cm, not folded at night; leaflets (4–)6–8(–10), green, elliptic to obliquely oblong or obovate, 20–35 × 8–15 mm. Apex rounded. Leaflets subcoriaceous. Leaflet margins entire. Petioles shorter than leaflets. Stipules usually deciduous, ovate, 3 mm, apex acuminate, usually mucronulate, hairy.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescences in axillary clusters, appearing terminal, solitary to several in axils of upper leaves, 2–3 cm diam. Flowers bisexual (perfect); pedicels glabrous. Calyx of 4–5 sepals; sepals obovate, 5–7 mm, outer smaller. Corolla of 4–5 petals, blue, obovate, 7–11 × 5–7 mm, base clawed, apex rounded to lobed. Stamens 8–10, ± as long as petals; filaments subulate to base slightly winged. Ovary superior, 4–5-lobed, 4–5-locular, obovoid, glabrous; style subulate.

Fruit: Capsules becoming greenish yellow to bright orange; obovoid; 14–20 × 12–14 mm; 4–5–lobed; 4–5–winged; apex pointed; smooth; glabrous. Seeds brown or black; ellipsoid; 10–11 mm.

Ploidy:

Habitat:

Elevation Range: 0–10 m.