Small or medium-sized tree, to 25 m high, bole to 8 m high, d.b.h. to 40 cm. Branchlets terete, puberulous in the distal parts, glabrescent. Leaves: rachis 5.5-14 cm, densely puberulous, with 2 or 3 glands, narrowly elliptic or linear (slit-like), flat or concave, margins only slightly raised, 3-11 mm; pinnae (1 or) 2 pairs, 2.5-13 cm, densely puberulous; petiolules 2-3 mm, puberulous; leaflets (l-)2-5 pairs per pinna, opposite, rigidly chartaceous, drying dark brown, unequal-sided, ovate, elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate, 3-15 by 1.2-4 cm, base rounded or usually asymmetrically cuneate, apex acuminate to subcaudate, upper surface glabrous except for the main vein, lower surface puberulous; principal lateral veins 9-15 per leaflet-half, parallel, straight or ± arching; reticulation prominulous above, prominent beneath. Inflorescences terminal and axillary at the distal leaves densely puberulous, consisting of pedunculate umbels, aggregated into panicles of 40 by 40 cm; umbels consisting of 3-5 pedicellate flowers, pedicels 1.5-3 mm; floral bracts narrowly ovate, acute, 0.5 mm, sericeous. Flowers pentamerous, bisexual. Calyx cupuliform, 2-2.2(-3.5) mm, densely puberulous; teeth deltoid, 0.2-0.3 mm. Corolla pale green, funnel-shaped, (6-)6.5-7(-10) mm, densely puberulous; lobes ovate-elliptic, acute, 2.5-3.5 mm. Stamens white, tube equalling or shorter than the corolla-tube. Ovary solitary, densely puberulous. Pod and seeds unknown.
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