Small tree 3.6–4 mm. tall with young stems, leaves, petioles, inflorescences, fruits, etc. very densely covered with soft but ± bristle-like hairs up to 3 mm. long, spreading on the stems etc., but ± adpressed on the leaves; older stems grey or purplish brown, densely lenticellate, glabrescent.. Leaves discolorous, ± thin, 3-foliolate but with lateral leaflets very much smaller than terminal one or virtually absent; petiole 4–6 cm. long; terminal petiolule 0.4–1.1 cm. long, lateral petiolules 0–1 mm. long; terminal leaflet elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 20–30 cm. long, 9–15 cm. wide, tapering to a narrow acute apex, cuneate at the base, irregularly serrate or crenate-serrate; lateral nerves in 9–15 pairs; lateral leaflets 1.5–4 cm. long, 0.5–2 cm. wide.. Inflorescences unbranched, ± 6 cm. long, with closely placed 5–10-flowered sessile cymules, their persistent rhachises ± 1 mm. long, prominently scarred; peduncles up to ± 1 cm. long.. Sepals up to 2 mm. long and wide, glabrous.. Style 1 mm. long, hairy; stigma-branches 0.8 mm. long.. Fruits subglobose, 8 mm. long, 6 mm. wide, spreading hairy.
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