Tree up to 25 m. Branchlets slender, scabrous, tips sparsely appressedly pubescent; pith with many vascular strands, partly arranged in a peripheral cylinder. Stipules caducous, inserted at the conjunction of petiole and branchlet on a faintly prominent 2-3 mm long rim, oblong-lingulate to subulate, 1½-6½ mm. Leaves 2-4-jugate, glabrous. Leaflets oblong-elliptic (to oblong-ovate), 5-11 by 2-4½ cm, coriaceous; base cuneate; margin entire; apex abruptly, bluntly short-acuminate; nerves 10-14 pairs (angle 50-55°), gradually curved towards the margin, apical ones always, the rest sometimes distinctly arched. Inflorescences and flowers unknown. Infructescences axillary, subracemose, 4-8 cm long, with 1-2 fruits; calyx saucer-shaped, 3-lobed, 8 mm diam.; remains of 6 fimbriate disk-lobes present. Fruits subovoid, tapering at the base, about round in cross-section; pyrene more or less prominently 3-keeled; lids c. 2½ mm thick. Seed 1, sterile cells very slightly reduced.
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