Shrub or small tree up to 8 m. tall branching near the base from a short bole; bark dark grey, hardly peeling; young branches very straight, set at nearly 90° to the parent stem, pubescent, with longitudinal ridges and fissures.. Leaves sparsely tomentose, 2–11 cm. long; stipules sometimes present, small, narrowly triangular, caducous; petiole 2–16 mm. long; leaflets 11–47, often subalternate, elliptic-oblong, entire, truncate or rounded at the base, rounded or broadly acute apically up to 13 × 7 mm. near the middle of the leaf, usually smaller towards its tip, much smaller, sometimes only 1 mm. long, at the base.. Flowers white or greenish white in short pedunculate pubescent, sometimes precocious, cymes 1–4 cm. long; pedicels up to 8 mm. long in fruit.. Calyx pubescent, ± 1.5 mm. long, with triangular lobes.. Petals ovate, ± 2 mm. long, pubescent near the centre.. Filaments ± 0.3 mm. wide, the upper part filiform, ± 0.05 mm. wide; anthers 0.7 mm. long.. Disc concave.. Ovary glabrous; style ± 0.6 mm. long.. Fruit green, often tinged with crimson, 18–20(–25) mm. long, 9–11 (–14) mm. wide, widest ± 6 mm. below the tip; nutlets subcruciform, the apical spine longer and more slender than the other 3.. Fig. 2/14–19.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 5 m high. The leaves are in tufts on small side shoots. The flowers are greenish white. The fruit are red and 3 sided with 3 seeds.
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