Erect shrub with spreading, often pendulous branches, c. 3 m high, or tree up to 1 high, dbh c. 19 cm; outer bark grey, shallowly fissured; inner bark red. Twigs grooved, c. 2.5 mm thick. Leaves 1-3-jugate; petiole 3-7.5 cm long, c. 1.5 mm thick; petiolules 2-4 mm long, above broadly grooved or flat. Leaflets opposite (to alternate), ovate to elliptic, 7-16 by 2.5-8 cm, index 2-3.5, above glabrous, beneath fairly densely short-hairy on midrib and nerves, in between sparsely appressed short-hairy to glabrous; base symmetric or in upper leaflets the basiscopic side slightly more developed, acute to obtuse, slightly attenuate; apex hardly to slightly acuminate, very apex rounded; midrib above flat to prominulous, nerves 0.5-1 cm apart, curved, ending free or the upper ones ± looped and joined near the margin, prominulous on both sides, intersecondary nerves few, veins and veinlets minutely reticulate, prominulous. Inflorescences up to 16 cm long, sparsely hairy, peduncle 1-3.5 cm long; branches few, up to 4 cm long but usually much shorter; cymules short-stalked, sev-eral-flowered; pedicels 2-5 mm long. Sepals c. 1 mm high. Petals c. 0.8 mm long, on both sides gla-brous. Stamens 7 or 8; filaments c. 0.8 mm long; anthers c. 1.5 mm long, yellow to pink. Fruits c. 1 by 1.25 cm, yellowish brown, slightly warty, outside very sparsely hairy to glabrous, inside glabrous, wall hard, c. 0.5 mm thick.
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