Treelet c. 2.5 m high. Branchlets terete, glabrous. Stipules not seen. Leaves: rachis 38-50 cm, puberulous-glabrous, glands circular or subcircular, with strongly raised thick margins, c. 3-4 m in diameter; pinnae 3 pairs, 15-55 cm, puberulous or glabrous, glands circular or rhombic in outline, with thick and raised margins, 2-3 mm in diameter; leaflets 2-4 pairs per pinna, chartaceous, drying pale yellow-green, ± equal-sided, ovate-elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 6.5-25 by 4.5-9(-12) cm, base symmetrically cuneate, apex obtusely acuminate, both surfaces glabrous; principal lateral veins 6-9 per leaflet-half, arching, not very oblique, reticulation dense, prominulous above, prominent beneath. Inflorescences ramiflorous, glabrous, consisting of a short, sturdy branched panicle up to 1.5 cm, floral bracts linear, scarious, c. 2 mm, occasionally with a nectary, caducous; pedicels 2-3 mm. Flowers pentamerous, male or female. Male flower: calyx tubular, densely striate, 8 mm, glabrous or slightly puberulous, teeth triangular-ovate, acute, c. 2 mm; corolla tubular, 20 mm, glabrous, lobes linear, acute, c. 10 mm; stamens 33 mm; ovary solitary, glabrous. Female flower: calyx 14-20 mm, widened at the mouth; corolla 21-25 mm; ovaries 2, glabrous. Pod red, densely contorted, flattened, c. 10 by 1.7 cm, slightly sinuate along the dorsal suture, hard-fleshy, glabrous, valves with visible veins, mode of dehiscence unknown. Seeds unknown.
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