Shrub or small tree, 2-3 m high. Branchlets terete, ridged by ridges decurrent from the leaf-scars, densely puberulous, glabrescent. Leaves: rachis 1.5-3.5 cm, puberulous, gland(s) sessile, slitlike, margins slightly raised, c. 3-11 mm long; pinnae 1 (or 2) pairs, puberulous; petiolules 2-4 mm, puberulous; leaflets 2 or 3 pairs per pinna, (proximal pinnae, when present, with 1 pair), opposite, rigidly chartaceous or coriaceous, drying glossy dark brown above and golden brown beneath, equal-or unequal-sided, ovate, elliptic, obo-vate-elliptic, or lanceolate, 3-9.5 by 1.7-4.5 cm, base asymmetrically half rounded/half cuneate or symmetrically cuneate, apex acuminate, often mu-cronulate, upper surface glabrous except for the main vein, lower surface densely appressed-puberu-lous (or subglabrous); principal lateral veins up to 10 per leaflet-half, parallel, oblique, straight; reticulation prominulous on both surfaces. Inflorescences terminal and axillary in the distal leaf-axils, puberulous, consisting of pedunculate glomerules aggregated into panicles to 33 cm long and wide; glomerules consisting of 2-5 sessile or subsessile flowers; floral bracts ovate, obtuse, c. 0.5 mm, puberulous-sericeous. Flowers pentamerous, bisexual, white. Calyx broadly cup-or bowl-shaped, 1-1.5 mm, puberulous or sericeous; teeth inconspicuous, c. 0.2 mm. Corolla funnel-shaped, 3.5-5.1 (-5.5) mm, appressed-puberulous or sericeous, lobes triangular-ovate, acute, 1.5—1.75(-2) mm. Stamens c. 10 mm, the tube shorter than the corolla-tube. Ovary solitary, puberulous-sericeous. Pod reddish outside, reddish-orange within, contorted into a circle, only slightly sinuate between the seeds, coriaceous, c. 4-4.5 cm in diameter, valves 1.1-1.5 cm wide, puberulous, veins inconspicuous, dehiscing along both sutures. Seeds black, subor-bicular, flattened, c. 6-7 by 5 by 3-4 mm.
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