Shrub or small tree up to 4 m high, stem to 7 cm in diameter. Branchlets terete, tuberculate, bristly rusty pubescent. Stipules subulate-setaceous, 0.7-2 cm, bristly pubescent. Leaves: rachis 19-25 cm, bristly rusty setose, wings 0.2-1.2 cm wide, glands raised, circular, ± concave, c. 1 mm in diameter; pinnae 1 pair, 19-25 cm, bristly rusty setose, wings 0.2-1.2 cm wide, glands similar to rachis-glands; leaflets 3!/2 pairs per pinna, subsessile, chartaceous, drying grey to brown, ± unequal-sided, oblong-lanceolate, 14.5-24(-30) by 5-6.5(-9.5) cm, base asymmetrically rounded to subcordate, apex acuminate-caudate, upper surface glabrous, lower surface with scattered bristly hairs on the major veins; principal lateral veins 8-10 per leaflet-half, oblique; reticulation dense, prominulous above, raised beneath. Inflorescence and flowers unknown. Infructescence cauliflorous and possibly also terminal, with remnants of pedicellate flowers. Pod red, curved into a circle or spirally contorted, up to c. 15 by 1.2-1.4 cm, coriaceous, constricted between the seeds, dehiscing along the dorsal suture, glabrous or with scattered bristly hairs, rugose, veins inconspicuous. Seeds black, ellipsoid, slightly compressed, c. 10 by 7 mm.
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