Slender tree, usually 5-10(-20) m tall; stems terete, glabrous except when young. Leaves 3-foliolate; petioles somewhat flattened laterally, 2-5(-7) cm long, strigose; leaflets elliptic to oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate, subsessile, acuminate at the apex, acute and sometimes inequilateral at the base, 2.5-26 cm long, 1.5-7.5 cm wide, remotely serrate, glabrate except for the sparsely pubescent veins and sometimes the tufts of trichomes in the axils of veins beneath. Thyrses puberu-lent, simple or paniculate, chiefly axillary. Flowers campanulate, cream or green-ish white, ca. 2 mm wide, pedicellate; sepals ciliolate, orbicular to obovate; petals obovate, 1-2 mm long, glabrous, ciliolate, their scales united with petals to near the apex, densely villous, each subtended by a yellowish basal gland; staminate flowers with stamens well exserted, to ca. 2.3 mm long, clustered on one side of the flower, the filaments villous at least near the base, the pistillode obscure; bisexual flowers with the stamens less than 1 mm long, included, the ovary 2-celled, minutely hispidulous, the style borne between the 2 cells, 1.5-2 mm long, persisting in fruit but very oblique, held at base of fruit, the stigmas 2, re-curved, densely papillate. Fruit of 2 obovoid cocci (1 usually aborting), 6-9 mm long, yellow to orange, finally red and glabrate at maturity with a thin fleshy pericarp covering the seed; seed 2-3 mm diam.
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A small tree. The bark is cream coloured. The leaves have 3 leaflets. They have fine teeth. The flowers are white. They are in groups in the axils of leaves. The fruit are red and 5 mm long.
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