Tree or treelet 2–6 m; bole c. 7 cm diam. Bark smooth to finely cracked, brown; inner bark brown; wood brown. Leafy twigs c. 2–3 mm diam. Apical buds with fistshaped young leaves. Leaves to 18.5(–35.5) cm, paripinnate with apical spike to 5 mm, to 3(–5)-jugate, glabrous, subcoriaceous, dark green when fresh; petiole 2–10 cm, c. 2 mm diam. Leaflets opposite, 5–15.5 by 2–4.5(–6) cm, elliptic-oblong, bases cuneate, apices strongly acuminate, acumen to 7 mm, veins 5–7 on each side, often very inconspicuous, venation brochidodrome; petiolules c. 3–4 mm, slightly swollen, blackish when dried. Thyrses to 10 cm, axillary to supra-axillary, weakly branched, axes finely sericeous; branches to 2 cm with 1–3 flowers; bracts c. 1.5 mm, triangular, pubescent; pedicel 0–2 mm; pseudopedicel 3–5 mm, continuous with calyx. Calyx c. 1.5–2 mm diam., icupular, subglabrous, margin with 4 (5) teeth, ciliate. Petals (3) 4, c. 3.5–4 mm long, oblong, subglabrous, adnate to tube proximally, white apices obtuse, thickened. Staminal tube glabrous, margin with 8 ± emarginate short lobes; anthers (6) 8, c. 0.5 mm long, ovate, weakly exserted, alternating with lobes; pollen shed in tetrads. Disk c. 1 mm tall, fleshy, margin ± lobed. Ovary 4-locular, pilose; style cylindrical, sparsely pilose proximally; the stylehead discoid to subcylindrical. Capsule c. 1–2 cm diam., flattened-globose, glabrous, red. Seeds 3 or 4, dark brown, with circumhilar orange (?) aril.
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