Trees 3-15 m high, dbh 7-8 cm; bark smooth, light to reddish brown; wood white. Indumentum on young parts and inflorescences dense golden-brown. Flowering twigs terete, 3-4 mm in diam., striate, villose, with reddish glands. Leaves 3-6(-8)-jugate; petiole 2-6.5 cm long, flattened above, rounded below in lower part, towards the apex terete; rachis 2-8.5(-16) cm long, terete; petiole and rachis striate, villose, with reddish glands; petiolules 2-5(-8) mm long, velutinous. Leaflets alternate to opposite, elliptic to ovate, (slightly) asymmetric, 2-11.5 by 1-3.5 cm, index 2-4, dull or glossy, dark to midgreen above, paler below, chart-aceous, above almost glabrous, midrib villose, nerves more thinly so, below thinly to rather densely sericeous, midrib more densely so, reddish glands especially along midrib; base cunéate or rounded; apex long acuminate, acumen (5-)9-17 mm long, mucronate; margin entire; midrib above rather prominent, nerves 10-19 per side, 2-7 mm apart, angle to midrib 55-70(-75)°. Inflorescences axillary, 1 or 2 in an axil, 7-23 cm long, with long patent branches, laxly flowered; cymules dichasial, several-flowered; bracts and bracteoles acicular, 0.8-3.2 by 0.1-0.6 mm, not persisting, outside appressed-hairy, with reddish glands, inside glabrous; pedicels 1.5-3 mm long, articulated at the base. Flower buds olivaceous, globular, 2 by 2 mm. Sepals persisting, outside appressed-hairy, margin ciliate, inside with some hairs at the base to almost glabrous, outer ± elliptic, 1.3-2.4 by 1-1.4 mm, with a narrow scarious rim, inner broadly elliptic to orbicular, 2-2.6 by 1.3-2 mm, with a rather wide scarious rim. Petals white or cream, broad-elliptic, 0.5-0.8 by 0.4-0.8 mm, glabrous on both surfaces, margin long-ciliate; scale 1, V-shaped to squarish, 0.6-0.8 mm long, not crested, apically with long, patent hairs. Disc glabrous. Stamens 8, exserted; filaments filiform, 1.2-1.8 mm long, hairy in basal part; anthers elliptic, 0.8-1.2 mm long, glabrous. Ovary 2-celled, hairy, with reddish glands; style 1.8-2.4 mm long; stigma 1.2-1.8 mm long, 2-lined to 2-lobed; pistillode densely hairy, 0.4-1 by 0.4-1 mm. Fruits brown or crimson, transversely ellipsoid to obreniform, emarginate, 2-celled, 20 by 30 mm, stipe c. 1 mm long; wall 0.2-0.4 mm thick, outside smooth to rugose, velutinous, with reddish glands, inside villose. Seeds ellipsoid, 10 by 6 mm, basally attached, testa shiny black; arillode almost totally covering the seed, cotyledons unequal, superposed.
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