Shrub (semi-scandent), or small tree, up to 3 m high. Bark often conspicuously lenticellate. Leaves digitately 3-4-foliolate (sometimes single or 5-foliolate); stipules subulate, 1 mm long; leaflets elliptic or obovate, 6-15 cm long, 2-8 cm wide, apex acuminate to rounded, apiculate, base cuneate, primary veins 6-8, looping before margin, very prominent on lower surface, coriaceous, glabrous. Flowers cauliflorous, pink to pale mauve, 51-152 mm abbreviated racemes; peduncles 3-15 mm long; pedicels 5-10 mm long. Calyx-tube campanulate, 4 mm long, intruse at base; lobes 4-5, oblong, 6-8.5 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, apex with long recurved mucro and several side mucros, veined. Petals 0. Stamens 13-18, on a short torus; filaments 1-1.4 cm long; anthers oblong, 2 mm long. Ovary on terete gynophore, ellipsoid, with about 7 ovules; style 0; stigma capitate, as broad as ovary. Fruit subglobose to ovoid with 4 longitudinal sutures, 1.7-3 cm long, 1.2-2.5 cm wide, colliculate. Seeds 5-7, broadly ovoid, compressed, 6-9 mm diam.
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Tree, shrub or climber, 1-3 m high, bark often conspicuously lenticellate. Leaves stipulate, glabrous, coriaceous; digitately 3-or 4-foliolate; leaflets elliptic or obovate. Flowers cauliflorous, pink to pale mauve, 2-6 in abbreviated racemes. Calyx: tube campanulate; lobes 4 or 5, oblong. Petals absent. Stamens 13-18, on a short torus; filaments terete; anthers oblong. Ovary on a long, terete gynophore, ellipsoid, ± 7 ovules; style absent; stigma capitate. Fruit subglobose to ovoid. Seeds ovoid, compressed.
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