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| Distribution | Native to South AmericaIn the Hawaiian Islands,
naturalized on
Maui, Hawai`i.
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Habit
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Trees 5-15 m tall, with slender drooping branches forming a spreading crown.
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Leaves
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Leaves with 7-20 pairs of opposite or alternate leaflets, these narrowly lanceolate to linear lanceolate, 1.5-5(-6) cm long, 0.2-0.7 cm wide, terminal leaflet smaller than lateral ones, glabrous to sparsely puberulent, margins entire to remotely serrate.
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Flowers
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Sepals deltate, ca. 0.4 mm long; petals yellowish white, narrowly ovate, 1.5-2 mm long; styles and stigmas 3.
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Fruit
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Drupes lavender to pink, 6-8 mm in diameter.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 28, 30
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