Tree to 25 m high. Internodes of young branchlets terete or slightly compressed or sub-tetragonous. Leaves trifoliolate (occasional leaves simple); petiole 2–8 cm long, puberulous when young, at least adaxially or towards base; laminae elliptic to obovate, or narrowly so, 7–21 cm long, 2–6.5 cm wide, rounded to acute or obtusely acuminate, with acumen to 0.8 cm long, glabrous. Inflorescences many-flowered, axillary, 3–10 cm long; pedicels 3–7.5 mm long (length similar in fruit), puberulous or finely pubescent. Flower buds obtuse. Sepals 2–3 mm wide, glabrous adaxially. Petals 8–10 mm long, like staminal filaments usually subpersistent in fruit. Gynoecium syncarpous, like fruit 4-loculed; ovary pubescent, like fruit with apical septicidal fissures or these lacking. Fruit syncarpous, subpyriform or occasionally subglobose, 8–13 mm long, without stylar beak, pubescent at least towards apex or becoming glabrous; fruiting carpels without ruptured wall opening into locule; dried fruit as seen in medial transverse section with outer part of pericarp c. 1 mm thick, with fleshy exocarp and woody mesocarp; endocarp cartilaginous. Seeds c. 4 mm long.
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