Shrub or small tree up to 6 m high. Branchlets terete, glabrous. Stipules linear, 1-1.5 mm, glabrous, caducous. Leaves glabrous all over; rachis 1.5-4.5 cm, eglandular; pinnae 1 pair, 4-6 cm, eglandular; petiolules 2-4 mm; leaflets 1½ (-2) pairs per pinna, the proximal leaflets usually unpaired, chartaceous, drying grey-brown, ± unequal-sided, ovate-oblong, elliptic, or oblanceolate, 6.5-12.5 by 2.2-4.7 cm, base ± symmetrically narrowly cuneate, tapering into the petiolule, apex sharply acute-acuminate; principal lateral veins 6-9 per leaflet-half, arching, non-parallel; reticulation prominulous on both surfaces. Inflorescences either terminal or borne on the branches below the leaves, with scattered hairs in the distal parts; terminal inflorescences consisting of pedunculate racemes aggregated into a panicle up to 12 by 8 cm, pedicels 2.5-4.5 mm; floral bracts oblong-linear, scarious, obtuse, c. 1 mm, caducous; lateral inflorescences below the leaves, consisting of pedun-cled racemes clustered on short-shoots, 2-4.5 cm long. Male flowers tri-or tetramerous. Calyx green, subtubular, truncate, 3.5-5 mm, glabrous. Corolla green to creamy-yellow, narrowly funnel-shaped, 9-11 mm, glabrous; lobes ovate, acute, c. 5 mm. Stamens white, c. 20 mm, tube equalling the corolla-tube. Ovaries 2, absent or reduced in male flowers. Female flowers, pods and seeds unknown.
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