Unarmed glabrous shrub or slender tree up to 5 m. tall; leafy shoots ± 2 mm. in diameter, slightly ridged longitudinally; bark smooth, grey; exudate colourless and odourless.. Leaves always 3-foliolate, thin and delicate, rather translucent, drying yellowish green, usually born singly on long-shoots; petiole well developed, 1/3–4/5 as long as terminal leaflet which is entire, elliptic, ovate or obovate, broadly acuminate, attenuate below into a narrow petiolule-like base, the veins slender, not prominent, 15–70 mm. long, 10–55 mm. wide; lateral leaflets similar but broader at the base, 1/3–2/3 as long as the terminal.. Flowers dark red, appearing with the leaves.. Male inflorescences pedunculate 7–9-flowered cymes; peduncle 8–12(–28) mm.; pedicels 2–4 mm.; bracts ovate-triangular, 0.4–0.7 mm.; calyx ± 1.4 mm. including the 0.6 mm. broadly triangular lobes; petals ± 4 mm.; filaments 2.6 and 2.0 mm., anthers 0.6 and 0.4 mm. long.. Female flowers similar, in shorter 1–2-flowered cymes; style 1.3–2 mm. long; longer than the 0.9 mm. ovary; stigma capitate.. Fruit-stalk 4–6 mm. long; fruit asymmetrically oblong-ellipsoid, ± 10 × 8 × (3+4) mm., the pointed style-base deflected towards the sterile locule; pericarp 2-valved; pseudaril 4-armed, sutural arms almost as long as the stone; fertile facial arm 3/4 sterile locule arm 1/4 of its length; stone black, smooth, oblong, ± 8 × 5 × (2+4) mm.. Fig. 8/1–5, p. 52.
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