Tree 8-15 m high, dbh c. 12.5 cm; bark smooth or flaky, grey or brown. Indumentum short, ap-pressed, straight. Branchlets hairy when young; flowering twigs 3-7 mm thick. Leaves 2-jugate; petioles 2.5-10.5 cm long; rachis 1.5-5 cm long, (hemi)terete to flattened with 2 more or less distinct longitudinal grooves, hairy to glabrescent; petiolules 4-9 mm long, 1-grooved. Leaflets opposite to subopposite, elliptic to slightly obovate, 4.5-19 by 2.2-8.8 cm, index 1.8-2.9, not falcate, thinly coriaceous to chartaceous, usually not punctate, upper surface glabrous, lower surface slightly hairy on major nerves, colour slightly different from above; base symmetric to slightly asymmetric, then basiscopic side broader, acute to slightly attenuate; apex obtuse to slightly acuminate, very apex retuse to obtuse, not mucronulate; venation flat above, midrib slightly raised, colour yellowish to reddish, venation raised below, nerves marginally indistinctly looped, veins weakly scalar-iform, lax, distinct; domatia pockets (to sacs) opening in front. Inflorescences axillary to pseudoterminal, branching along rachis (basally); rachis terete to slightly flattened, 4-12.5 cm long, hairy when young; first-order branches up to 6 cm long; cymules dichasial, 1-7-flowered; bracts 0.3-0.7 mm long, bracteoles 0.2-0.3 mm long; pedicels 1-4.5 mm long, hairy. Flowers 1.5-2 mm in diameter. Calyx 0.7-1.2 mm high, deeply incised, outside hairy, inside glabrous, teeth equal, not punctate, margin not membranaceous, apex (sub)acute. Petals 2-5 (6), elliptic (to orbicular), 0.9-1.3 by 0.4-1 mm, not punctate, claw 0.1-0.3 mm long, blade gradually decurrent into claw, margin entire, pilose, apex obtuse to acute (to slightly acuminate), outside and inside subpilose; scales 0.5-0.8 mm long, free, basally not or slightly auriculate, apex (slightly) broadened, densely pilose. Disc glabrous. Stamens 8; filaments 1.5-2.5 mm long, pilose; anthers 1.1-1.3 mm long, incurved, pilose, connective slightly protruding. Ovary 2-(or 3-)locular; style and stigma elongating up to 1.5-3 mm in fruit, with a distinct thickening between style and stigma, not to slightly 2-lobed, in fruit upper 0.5-1 mm stigmatic. Fruits with 1 or 2 well-developed lobes, 0.7-1.3 by 0.7-2.6 cm, loculicidal, smooth to slightly rugose, slightly hairy, stipe 0.5-2 mm long, slender, lobes sometimes flattened laterally, 9-15 by 6-10 mm, dorsally rounded; endocarp thin, chartaceous, pilose on sutures. Seeds orbicular, flattened laterally, c. 6 by 6 mm; arillode completely covering seed, lobed, slightly folded towards the base inside, thick towards base, coriaceous, 2-lay-ered.
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