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[[File:Toona ciliata flowering branch Friday Hawaii.jpg|thumb|flowering branch (University of Hawaii)]]
[[File:Toona ciliata part of inflorescence B. Wursten.jpg|thumb|part of inflorescence (Zimbabweflora)]]
[[File:Toona ciliata flowers B. Wursten.jpg|thumb|flowers fruits (Zimbabweflora)]]
[[File:Toona ciliata fruits and seeds Friday Hawaii.jpg|thumb|fruits and seeds (University of Hawaii)]]
[[File:Toona ciliata wood Friday Hawaii.jpg|thumb|wood (University of Hawaii)]]
*Deciduous or nearly evergreen, monoecious, medium-sized tree up to 25(–35) m tall; bole branchless for up to 22 m, up to 50(–100) cm in diameter, with or without buttresses at base; bark surface greyish white to brown, usually fissured and flaking, inner bark brown to reddish, fibrous; crown rounded, spreading.
*Leaves alternate, paripinnately compound with (5–)9–15 pairs of leaflets; stipules absent; petiole 6–11 cm long, rachis slightly hairy or glabrous; petiolules 2–10(–14) mm long; leaflets lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, (7–)9–13(–16) cm × (2–) 3–5(–6) cm, asymmetric at base, acute or acuminate at apex, entire, glabrous, pinnately veined. *Inflorescence an axillary or terminal, much-branched, pendent panicle up to 55 cm long, hairy.
*Flowers unisexual, male and female flowers very similar in appearance, regular, 5-merous, fragrant; pedicel 0.5–1 mm long; calyx c. 1 mm long; petals free, 3.5–6 mm long, creamy white; stamens free, 1–2.5 mm long; disk 1.5–2.5 mm in diameter, reddish orange; ovary superior, 1–2 mm in diameter, 5-celled, style 0.5–3 mm long, stigma head-shaped; male flowers with rudimentary ovary, female flowers with non-dehiscing anthers.
*Fruit an ellipsoid to obovoid capsule 1.5–2.5 cm long, pendulous, smooth or with lenticels, reddish brown, dehiscing with 5 slightly woody valves, many-seeded.
