Shrub or small tree to 12 m high, 12 cm in diameter. Branchlets terete or ± angled by ridges decurrent from the leaf-scars, scarcely puberulous by patent hairs, glabrescent. Leaves: rachis (3—)6— 10.5(-12) cm, puberulous, gland strongly raised, circular and concave, rarely linear-oblong with a central depression, c. 2-4 mm long; pinnae 1 or 2 pairs, 2-13 cm, puberulous; petiolules 2-5 mm, puberulous; leaflets (l-)2-5 pairs per pinna, opposite, coriaceous, drying grey-green to dark brown, equal-sided to very unequal-sided, usually obliquely ovate, obovate, broadly elliptic, or subtrapezoid (-lanceolate) 5-18 by 2.5-10 cm, base broadly cuneate to rounded, apex acuminate(-caudate), upper surface subglabrous with puberulous main vein, lower surface subglabrous with a few scattered hairs on the major veins and margins only; principal lateral veins 7-14(-20) per leaflet-half, parallel, oblique, straight; reticulation prominulous or prominent on both surfaces. Inflorescences terminal and axillary at the distal leaves, puberulous, consisting of pedunculate umbels aggregated into panicles to c. 40 by 50 cm; umbels consisting of c. 4-7 flowers, pedicels to 4 mm; floral bracts ovate elliptic, acute, c. 0.6 mm, puberulous to sericeous. Flowers pentamerous, bisexual. Calyx greenish yellow, cup-shaped, 1-2 mm, appressed-puberulous or sericeous; teeth deltoid, to 0.2 mm. Corolla cream, funnel-shaped, 5-7 mm, appressed puberulous or sericeous; lobes ovate to ovate-elliptic acute, 2-3 mm, sometimes reflexed. Stamens cream, to c. 20 mm, tube equalling the corolla-tube or shorter. Ovary solitary, densely puberulous. Pod reddish to orange both outside and within, curved into a circle before dehiscence, densely spirally contorted after dehiscence, chartaceous-coria-ceous, c. 3.5 cm in diameter, valves c. 1 cm wide, slightly sinuate between the seeds, glabrous or subglabrous, veins inconspicuous, dehiscence first along the ventral suture. Seeds black, ellipsoid, compressed, c. 9 by 7 by 4 mm.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 12 m tall. The trunk can be 12 cm across. The branches are angular or have ridges. The flowering shoots are in the axils of the leaves near the ends of branches. They are hairy and in groups 40 cm long by 50 cm wide. The flowers have 5 parts. The seeds are black and 9 mm long.
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