Shrub, or tree to 30 m high. Internodes of young branchlets terete or subtetragonous. Leaves trifoliolate, glabrous; petiole 2–6 cm long; laminae elliptic to obovate, or narrowly so, 6–11 cm long, 2.5–5 cm wide, rounded or obtuse. Inflorescences few–many-flowered, axillary and/or infrafoliar, 2–4 cm long; pedicels 1.5–2 mm long (1.5–2.5 mm long in fruit), puberulous at least towards base. Flower buds obtuse. Sepals c. 1.5 mm wide, glabrous adaxially. Petals 6–7 mm long, like staminal filaments deciduous in fruit. Gynoecium syncarpous, like fruit 4-loculed; ovary pubescent at apex, otherwise glabrous, like fruit with septicidal fissures in distal 1/3–3/4. Fruit syncarpous, subglobose to ellipsoid or obovoid, 6–10 (–15) mm long, without stylar beak, pubescent at apex, otherwise glabrous; frequent or occasional fruiting carpels with ruptured wall opening into locule; dried fruit as seen in medial transverse section with outer part of pericarp less than 0.5 mm thick, with fleshy exocarp but apparently lacking mesocarp; endocarp thinly cartilaginous. Seeds c. 3 mm long.
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