Tree, trunk to c. 10 m high, to 25 cm in diameter. Branchlets terete, brownish grey, lenticellate, puberulous. Leaves: petiole 2.7-3.8 cm, puberulous, glabrescent, gland slit-like, not raised, 4-6 mm long; pinnae 1 pair, 4-10 cm, densely puberulous, glabrescent; petiolules 5-7 mm, puberulous; leaflets 2 pairs per pinna, the lower pair sub-opposite or alternate, coriaceous or rigidly chartaceous, drying light brown or grey-brown, ± unequal-sided, ovate-elliptic, broadly elliptic, or lanceolate, 11-23.5 by 5.3-12 cm, base symmetrically cuneate or slightly attenuate, apex acute(-acuminate), principal lateral veins 5-10 per leaflet-half, oblique, nearly straight, the lower ones not reaching beyond the middle of the leaflet; reticulation prominulous above, prominent beneath, upper surface subglabrous except for the scarcely puberulous major veins, lower surface scarcely puberulous with densely puberulous major veins. Inflorescences ramiflorous, axillary at the leaves or terminal, puberulous to sericeous, consisting of pedunculate glomerules or spikelets, aggregated into panicles to 20 cm long; glomerules or spikelets composed of up to 15 subsessile flowers (pedicel c. 0.7 mm); bracts not observed. Flowers pentamerous, male or female. Calyx light green, tubular campanulate, 2.8-3.2 mm long, scarcely appressed puberulous, teeth irregularly triangular, acute, 0.1-0.5 mm long. Corolla creamy white, funnel-shaped, 6-7.2 mm long, tube glabrous; lobes elliptic, acute, 2-3 mm long, puberulous along margins and apex. Stamens creamy white, length not known, tube 4-4.8 mm, longer than the corolla-tube. Ovaries 1 or 2 per flower, glabrous. Pod and seeds unknown.
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