Treelet 1–3 m tall. Bark grey-brown, pustular and fissured, inner bark brown; wood straw. Leafy twigs 2–3 mm diam., lenticellate, finely sericeous when young. Buds densely sericeous, young leaves fist-shaped. Leaves 8–22 cm long, paripinnate, 2–4-jugate, with terminal, caducous, densely sericeous subulate spike to 6 mm long; petiole 3.5–7 cm, ± flattened adaxially, glabrous to thinly sericeous, swollen at base. Leaflets opposite or subopposite, the subapical the largest, 8–10.5 by 2.5–3.5 cm, subcoriaceous, glabrous to thinly sericeous abaxially, ovate to oblong, bases asymmetric, acute to cuneate, apices acuminate, costae c. 12 on each side, the secondary ones almost as conspicuous, subsquarrose, weakly arcuate, forked c. 2/3 from midrib and looped, prominulous on both surfaces in sicco; petiolules c. 1–2 mm, swollen, drying blackish. Inflorescences 2.5–6 cm, borne on dwarf axillary (or in axils of fallen leaves) shoots with minute sericeous terminal buds, not or sparsely branched, in fascicles of 1–4, each bearing 1–3(–6) flowers; axes delicate, glabrous, c. 0.5 mm diam. in sicco, erect; bracteoles c. 1.5 mm long, narrowly triangular, finely sericeous; pedicels c. 5–9 mm, swollen at articulation with pseudopedicel. Pseudopedicel c. 8 mm, narrowly funnel-shaped, c. 1.5 mm diam. beneath calyx. Calyx c. 2.5 mm deep, 3.5 mm diam., salveriform, glabrous, irregularly 4-dentate to 1/3. Petals 5, c. 15 by 4 mm, narrowly oblong, glabrous, apex acute. Staminal tube c. 4 mm diam., glabrous, margin subtruncate; anthers 8, c. 1.5 mm long, narrowly oblong to boat-shaped, included. Disk c. 2 mm long, narrowed towards apex where fleshy and irregularly crenate. Pistil (male only known) terete, sparsely pubescent in proximal half; stylehead c. 1.5 mm diam., subcylindrical. Capsule c. 2.5 cm long, 1.5 cm diam., glabrous, lenticellate-pustular, pyriform, stipitate, stipe to 8 mm long, 3–4-locular, greenish white. Seeds 3 or 4, c. 1 cm long, trigonal, covered in orange (?) aril.
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