(Shrub or) tree up to 3 m high, dbh c. 30 cm; stem slightly fluted, with rather inconspicuous thick buttresses; bark smooth, pale brown to ash grey. Twigs slightly grooved to terete, up to 5 mm thick, usually early glabrescent. Leaves 2-5(-7)-jugate; petiole semiterete to terete, 1-8.5 cm long, (0.5-)l-2 mm thick; petiolules 1-8 mm long, terete to above flattened to hollowed with 1 or 3 ribs. Leaflets opposite (to alternate), ovate to elliptic, 4-34 by 1-5.5 cm, index 2-4.5, pergamentaceous to papyraceous; glabrous (to slightly hairy on the midrib and beneath on the nerves to, exceptionally, (sub)tomentose); base symmetrical to oblique, in iower leaflets the acroscopic, in upper ones the basiscopic side larger, acute to (broadest side) rounded, somewhat attenuate; margin mainly in the upper half only slightly serrate, dentate, or crenate (or entire); apex rounded to acute; midrib above prominulous; nerves 0.5-2 cm apart, spreading to fairly steep, curved to nearly straight, ending free or in marginal teeth, or looped and joined near the margin, prominulous on both sides (or flat above); intersecondary nerves variably developed, veins and veinlets laxly to minutely reticulate, prominulous en both sides (or beneath indistinct). Inflorescences axillary, racemes, panicles, (or thyrses), up to 9 cm long, simple or with some up to 4 cm long branches, few-flowered, hairy; peduncle 0.75-2.5 en long; pedicels 1-1.5 mm long. Sepals c. 1 mm high, subconnate, inside hairy. Petals absent. Stamens: filaments short; anthers c. 1.2 mm long. Pistil 2 (or 3-)locular with a lobed stigma. Fruits 2-lobed and then often cordate (or only 1 lobe developed), cannate and shouldered (to slightly grooved), densely to sparsely fulvous (or ferrugineous tomentose or tomentellous), the lobes almost globular, 0.9-1 by 0.75-0.9 cm; wall 0.5-1 mm thick.
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