Tree to 27 m high. Internodes of young branchlets terete or compressed. Leaves trifoliolate (occasional leaves simple); petiole glabrous to sparsely puberulous when young, 2–8 cm long; laminae elliptic or elliptic-obovate, or narrowly so, 9–20 cm long, 2.5–8 cm wide, obtuse to acuminate, with acumen to 1 cm long, glabrous. Inflorescences several-or many-flowered, axillary, 5–24 cm long; pedicels 3–6 mm long (3–7 mm long in fruit), puberulous. Flower buds obtuse. Sepals 1–2 mm wide, tomentulose adaxially. Petals 6–8 mm long, like staminal filaments persistent in fruit. Gynoecium subapocarpous, 4-carpelled; ovary glabrous towards base, otherwise villous. Fruit of 4 basally connate carpels; carpels ovoid to ellipsoid, 3–3.5 mm long (excluding stylar beak 0.6–4 mm long), sparsely pilose or becoming glabrous, none with wall ruptured into locule; dried fruiting carpels as seen in medial transverse section with outer part of pericarp less than 0.5 mm thick, with chartaceous exocarp but apparently lacking mesocarp; endocarp thinly cartilaginous. Seeds c. 2.5 mm long.
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