Shrubs or small trees 3-10 m tall; stems terete, striated, yellow-tomentose when young, glabrate with age. Leaves pinnate; petiolules 3-7 mm long; leaflets 3-10, oblong-lanceolate to ovate, acute to oblong or oblanceolate at the apex, obliquely acute at the base, 5-20 cm long, 2-6.5 cm broad, the margin subentire to remotely denticulate, membranous, glabrous on the upper surface except for the villous veins, the lower surface velutinous, papillose. Panicles axillary or terminal, shorter than the leaves, 6-20 cm long, few branched; bracteoles subulate, tomen-tose; pedicels to 1 mm long, thick, densely tomentose. Flowers white; sepals ovate, 3 mm long, thick, not imbricate at anthesis, tomentose outside, glabrate inside; petals long-unguiculate, obovate-cuneate, 2.3 mm long, the scale fused to the petal laterally, the margin and inner surface villous, the outside glabrous; disc glabrous outside, sparsely puberulous inside; filaments filiform, flattened, vil-lous; bisexual flowers with stamens to 2 mm long, the ovary and style 3 mm long. Capsules turbinate, triquetrous, 3-lobed, ca. 1.5 cm long, short-stipitate, charta-ceous, reddish-brown, densely and shortly pubescent outside, glandulose inside; seeds ellipsoid, ca. 1 cm long, shortly arillate.
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