Tree c. 12 m high. Indumentum patent, críspate. Branchlets hairy when young; flowering twigs 2-3 mm thick. Leaves 1-or 2-jugate; petioles 2-6 cm long; rachis 1.5-3.5 cm long, (hemi)terete, hairy; petiolules 5-8 mm long, 1-grooved. Leaf-lets opposite to subopposite, ovate to elliptic, 6.7-16.2 by 2.8-6 cm, index 2.2-2.8, not falcate, chartaceous to coriaceous, not punctate, upper surface glabrous, lower surface glabrous to sparsely hairy, especially on major nerves, colour slightly different from above; base symmetric, slightly attenuate to acute; apex acuminate, very apex obtuse to rounded, not mucronulate; venation flat above, midrib slightly raised, colour reddish, venation raised below, nerves marginally indistinctly looped, veins scalariform, lax, distinct; domatia small pock-ets to sacs opening in front. Inflorescences axillary to pseudoterminal to ramiflorous on young branches, branching basally and along rachis; rachis terete, 5.5-15 cm long, densely hairy when young; first-order branches up to 8 cm long; cymules dichasial to monochasial, 1-4-flowered; bracts 0.3-1 mm long, bracteoles 0.1-0.3 mm long; pedicels 1-2 mm long, densely hairy. Flowers 1.5-3 mm in diameter. Calyx 0.9-1.2 mm high, deeply incised, outside hairy, inside (sub)glabrous, teeth equal, not punctate, margin not membranous, apex acute to somewhat obtuse. Petals 2-5, often more or less reduced, obovate to ovate to suborbicular, 0.3-1 by 0.2-0.7 mm, not punctate, claw 0.2-0.3 mm long, blade abruptly to gradually decurrent into claw, margin entire, (sub)pilose, apex obtuse to acute, outside (sub)glabrous, inside glabrous; scales almost linear, often one or both reduced, 0.3-0.8 mm long, almost free, (basally auriculate), apex often forked, not broadened, sparsely pilose. Disc pilose on rim. Stamens 7 or 8; filaments in female flower 0.7-1.5 mm long, pilose; anthers in female flower 0.5-0.7 mm long, straight, pilose, connective not protruding. Ovary 2-(or 3-)locular; endocarp pilose on sutures of lobes; style and stigma not lobed. Fruits not observed.
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