Small tree. Flowering twigs c. 10 mm in diam., grooved, villose with hairs of two lengths. Leaves c. 10-jugate; petiole flattened above, rounded below, towards the apex terete; rachis flattened above, rounded below to terete; petiole and rachis striate to grooved, villose hairs of two lengths; petiolules 3-5 mm long, grooved above. Leaflets alternate to opposite, ovate, búllate, slightly asymmetric, 19-25.5 by 7.5 cm, index 2.5-3.5, dark shiny green above, duller and darker below, chartaceous, above almost glabrous, midrib and nerves puberulous, below thinly puberulous, midrib and nerves puberulous; base rounded; apex acuminate, acumen 5-10 mm, acute; margin entire; midrib above scarcely prominent, nerves 19-29 per side, 10-14 mm apart, angle to midrib 70-75°. Inflorescences axillary, 1 or 2 per axil, 19.5-35 cm long, with long patent branches, laxly flowered; cymules several-flowered; bracts and bracteoles narrowly triangular, 0.6-1 by 0.2-0.4 mm, not persisting, outside appressed-hairy, inside glabrous; pedicels c. 1.4 mm long, articulated near the apex. Sepals persisting, reflexed at anthesis, outside appressed-hairy, inside with scattered hairs, outer broad-ovate, 2.4 by 1.9 mm, scarious rim narrow, inner orbicular, 3.6 by 2.6 mm, scarious rim wide. Petals pink, elliptic, 1.9-2.4 by 1-1.1 mm, outside with a tuft of appressed hairs at the base, margin with few glands, inside glabrous; scales 2, not crested, 0.7 mm long, long-woolly. Disc with 5 tufts of hairs. Stamens 8, exserted; filaments 1.2 mm long, pat ently hairy except at base; anthers 2.6 mm long, glabrous. Fruits orange-brown, 3-celled; wall thick, outside rugose, velutinous, inside villose.
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