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*Sneezewood (En). *Mwandara (Sw).

*Dioecious, usually deciduous shrub or small to medium-sized tree up to 20(–45) m tall; bole often straight and cylindrical, up to 50(–120) cm in diameter; bark surface whitish grey, longitudinally fissured in large trees. *Leaves opposite, paripinnately compound with 3–8 pairs of leaflets; stipules absent; petiole flattened, rachis usually ending in a short mucro; leaflets nearly sessile, very asymmetrically oblong-lanceolate to oblong-ovate, 2–6 cm × 0.5–3 cm, cuneate at base, notched to obtuse or slightly acuminate at apex, margin entire, densely short-hairy when young but glabrescent, pinnately veined with closely spaced lateral veins. *Inflorescence an axillary contracted panicle up to 5 cm long. *Flowers unisexual, regular, 4-merous; pedicel up to 6 mm long; sepals nearly free, ovate, c. 1 mm long, sparsely hairy; petals free, oblong, c. 5 mm × 1.5 mm, pale yellow; male flowers with 4 stamens c. 3.5 mm long and minute rudimentary ovary; female flowers with rudimentary stamens, ovary superior, laterally compressed, 2-celled, with rather short style and 2-lobed stigma. *Fruit an oblong capsule c. 2 cm × 1 cm, notched at apex, reddish brown, reticulately veined, dehiscent with 2 valves, 2-seeded. *Seeds with a large terminal wing, c. 16 mm × 6 mm.

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