Tree, 5 m high. Twigs terete with 5 faint grooves, 4 mm in diam., light grey, early glabrescent, hairs in short dense tufts. Leaves 2-jugate, axial parts subglabrous; petiole 2-2.5 cm long, flattened above; petiolules 5 mm long, broadly grooved above. Leaflets elliptic to ovate, 12.5-15 by 6-7 cm, index c. 2, coriaceous-chartaceous, glabrous, above finely punctate, beneath with a naked gland in the axil of each nerve and some scattered marginal glands; base equal-sided, rounded, decurrent; margin répand; apex obtuse; midrib slightly raised to hardly sunken above, nerves 1-1.5 cm apart, angle to midrib 70-75°, slightly curved, above prominulous, veins and veinlets hardly distinct, finely reticulate, equally prominent on both sides. Inflorescences 13-22 cm long; branches few, long, erect, short-velutinous, the hairs mainly densely tufted; cymules up to 7-flowered; bracts triangular-lanceolate, 3-4 mm long; pedicels c. 2 mm long. Sepals 4 by 3 mm, inside puberulous in the upper ⅔. Petals 5, narrow-spathulate, 5 by 1.5 mm, outside woolly except at very base and in upper 0.2, inside densely woolly except at base. Disc velutinous. Stamens: filaments c. 3.5 mm long, sparsely patent-hairy except at base; anthers 1 mm long. Pistillode small, 2-merous, velutinous. Female flowers and fruits not observed.
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