Common Name:
Maackia
Six species of deciduous trees, leaves alternate, compound (odd-pinnate), leaflets opposite or nearly so, short stalked, margin entire. Flowers white in dense upright clusters (racemes), fruit (pod), linear-oblong, 1-5 seeded. Native to eastern Asia.
Maackia: after Richard Maack, Russian naturalist (1825-1886).
Pronunciation:
MAK-ee-a
Family:
Fabaceae