Tree up to 11 m high, dbh c. 20 cm; bark smooth, hrown with conspicuous grey or white patches. 'twigs terete, 4-5 mm thick, glabrescent. Leaves 3-5-jugate; petiole slightly flattened above, 4-7.5 cm long, 1.5-2.5 mm thick; petiolules 4-10 mm long, above broad and flat with the midrib raised; axes hairy, glabrescent. Leaflets (sub)opposite, ovate to elliptic, 6.5-16.5 by 2.5-6 cm, index 2-3,25, stiff-pergamentaceous; glabrous, or sparsely hairy on the midrib (also with a few hairs on the nerves beneath); base hardly to very oblique, the acroscopic side broader than the basiscopic side, rounded to acute, slightly attenuate ot not; margin serrate-dentate; apex acute, mucronate; midrib above prominulous; nerves 1-1.5 cm apart, obliquely patent, slightly curved, ending in marginal teeth, prominulous on both sides; intersecondary nerves hardly developed, veins and veinlets laxly reticu-late. Inflorescences axillary, panicles, up to c. 6 cm long; branches few, obliquely patent to patent, up to 6 cm long, rather many-flowered, densely hairy; peduncle c. 5 mm long; pedicels very short. Sepals 1-1.2 mm high, nearly completely connate, hairy at both sides to only inside sparsely hairy mainly basally. Petals absent. Stamens: filaments 0.8-1.75 mm long; anthers c. 1.25 mm long. Pistil 2-locular, stigma apparently grooved. Fruits 2-lobed, deeply cordate especially when young, smooth, lobes globular, c. 8 mm in diam., densely fulvous-tomentellous; wall c. 0.5 mm thick.
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