Tree c. 8 m high, dbh c. 10 cm; bark brown. Indumentum patent, críspate. Branchlets hairy when young; flowering twigs 5-10 mm thick. Leaves 4-jugate; petioles 9.5-13 cm long; rachis 13.5-18.5 cm long, terete, slightly 2-grooved, hairy; petiolules 3-10 mm long, not or indistinctly 2-grooved. Leaflets subopposite to alternate, elliptic to slightly obovate, 10.6-20.4 by 4.7-7.2 cm, index 2.3-3, not falcate, coriaceous, slightly punctate, upper surface slightly to densely hairy on major nerves, lower surface hairy, especially on major nerves, approximately concolorous with upper surface; base asymmetric, basiscopic side broader, acute; apex slightly cuspidate, very apex rounded, not mucronulate; venation flat above, midrib slightly raised, concolorous with lamina, venation raised below, nerves marginally distinctly looped, veins scalariform, lax, distinct; domatia minute pockets opening in front. Inflorescences axillary, branching along rachis; rachis terete, 4-11 cm long, hairy when young; first-order branches up to 7.5 cm long; cymules dicha-sial, 1-3-flowered; bracts 0.7-1 mm long, bracteoles 0.2-0.5 mm long; pedicels 1.5-3 mm long, hairy. Flowers 2.5-3 mm in diameter. Calyx deeply incised, outside hairy, inside densely puberulous, teeth slightly unequal, not punctate, margin not membranous, apex obtuse, 2 outer smaller teeth 1.1-1.4 mm high, 3 inner larger ones 1.7-2 mm high. Petals 5, elliptic to ovate, 1.1-1.9 by 0.8-1.2 mm, not punctate, claw c. 0.1 mm long, blade gradually decurrent into claw, margin entire (to slightly denticulate near apex), pilose, apex obtuse to acute, outside (sub)glabrous, inside subglabrous to subpuberulous; scales 0.4-0.9 mm long, adnate to margin, basally not auriculate, apex broadened, densely pilose. Disc glabrous. Stamens 7 or 8; filaments 2-3 mm long, pilose; anthers 1.1-1.4 mm long, straight, glabrous, connective slightly protruding. Ovary 3-locular; style and stigma not lobed. Fruits not observed.
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