Small tree or multi-stemmed shrub 3–6 m tall. Indumentum of dark reddish brown peltate scales, densely covering twigs, petioles, rachis and petiolules, inflorescences, infructescences, outer surface of petals, calyces and fruits, numerous to dense on midrib of lower leaflet surface, absent or few on rest of lower surface. Leaves 6.5–20.5 cm long. Leaflets 5–7, 2.5–9 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, recurved at margin, coriaceous, with numerous pits on both surfaces; veins 9–11 pairs. Inflorescence 2.5–3 cm long. Flowers c. 3 mm long, c. 3 mm wide; pedicel c. 2 mm long. Petals 3, with dense scales on exposed surfaces. Staminal tube subglobose, 2.2 mm high, 2.2 mm wide, with numerous pale brown stellate scales on inner surface; aperture triangular, c. 1 mm across; anthers 3, just protruding through aperture. Ovary 1.2 mm long, 1 mm wide; locules 2, each with 2 ovules; stigma sessile with 2 minute apical lobes. Infructescence 4.4–7.5 cm long. Fruit subglobose, 1.7–2.5 cm long, 1–2 cm wide.
Grows mostly in semi-deciduous or deciduous vine thickets, sometimes in evergreen notophyll thicket or rainforest, at 20–70 m alt.
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