Tree to 10(–15) m, flowering when 3 m tall or less; bole to 20(–30) cm diam., often of poor form. Bark grey-brown, smooth, lenticellate, to finely cracking; inner bark creamish; sapwood cream; heartwood pinkish. Leafy twigs 4–6 mm diam., lenticellate, subglabrous to densely fulvous pubescent. Apical buds with fist-shaped young leaves. Leaves 12–30 cm, paripinnate with caducous apical spike to 2 mm long or, in juveniles, imparipinnate, (5–)10–14(–16)-jugate, the distal leaflets sometimes developing ± some time after the most proximal pseudostipular; petiole 0–3 cm, 2–3 mm diam., subglabrous to bristly pubescent, ± terete, base weakly swollen; rachis 2–3 mm diam., glabrescent to bristly pubescent. Leaflets opposite to subopposite, the subdistal the largest 7–12 by 1.8–3 cm, narrowly oblong, the more proximal the smaller, the pseudostipules c. 8 by 6 mm, suborbicular, glabrescent with a few hairs on midrib adaxially and on nerves and midrib abaxially, to finely pubescent adaxially and densely fulvous pubescent abaxially, margin entire to shallowly lobed, deeply so in juveniles, where lobes reach midrib, base rounded to obtuse or acute, asymmetric, apex acute to acuminate; costae c. 20–22 on each side, arising at right angles to midrib, ± forked and looped at margin, usually with conspicuous domatia in their axils, some intercostals almost as prominent as nerves; petiolules 0–1 mm. Thyrses 0.5–5 cm long, axillary, 1-or 2-branched, the primary to 2 cm, the secondary to 1 cm, bearing fascicles of 1–3 sweetly scented flowers, axes ± densely strigose; bracts and bracteoles c. 1 mm long, narrowly triangular, yellow strigose; pedicels c. 2 mm, articulated with swollen pseudopedicels, 1–2 mm long. Calyx continuous with pseudopedicel, c. 1–5 mm diam., shallowly cupular, lobes 4 (5), 0.5–1 mm, ± acute, densely strigose. Petals (3) 4, c. 9 mm long, c. 1.5–2 mm wide, narrowly oblong, creamish white, valvate, pilose without especially at apices, adnate to staminal tube in proximal 1/3. Staminal tube glabrescent to somewhat pilose without, weakly ribbed, margin ± irregularly lobed to praemorse; anthers (6) 8, c. 1 mm long, narrowly oblong, glabrous, included, their tips some 1 mm within tube. Disk c. 3 mm long, cylindrical, glabrous, margin crenate to irregularly 8-lobed. Ovary densely adpressed golden pubescent, 3-or 4-locular, each locule 1-ovulate; style terete, adpressed pubescent in proximal 2/3, stylehead suborbicular to short-cylindrical. Capsule c. 2 cm diam., subglabrous, apiculate, whitish with ± dense golden tomentum, 3-or 4-valved; pericarp white within, with white latex when cut. Seeds 3 or 4, c. 15 mm long, plano-convex, with red (?) aril and white hilum, apparently dangling from funicles at capsule dehiscence.
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