Treelet to 2 m. Leafy twigs 4–5 mm diam. Leaves 50–68 cm, imparipinnate, 3–5-jugate, subglabrous, drying pale brown; petioles 8–12 cm. Leaflets to 12 by 5 cm, oblong to elliptic-ovate, sometimes subcrenulate opposite to subopposite, base cuneate, apex acuminate with acumen to 17 mm, costae c. 9 or 10 on each side, venation impressed adaxially, prominent abaxially. Raceme to 24 cm, bracteate, flowers aggregated near tip. Calyx 4.5–5 mm long, 4–4.5 mm diam., cupular to cylindrical, pubescent, margin truncate to obscurely lobed. Petals 4 or 5, 17 by 3 mm, creamy-white to pinkish or crimson, glabrous to sparsely pubescent proximally without. Staminal tube slightly expanded at mouth, white, densely pubescent in distal half, margin truncate to weakly crenulate; anthers 5–8, 1.5–2 mm long, narrowly oblong to boat-shaped, scarcely locellate, glabrous, basifixed, inserted. Ovary conical, 3~locular, densely hairy; style terete, sparsely pubescent in proximal half; stylehead subcylindrical, strongly exserted. Infructescences ramiflorous, sometimes apparently borne on reduced shoots, with fruits crowded at apex. Capsule strongly rostrate when immature, 2.5 cm long, subglobose-pyriform and red when mature. Seeds unknown.
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