Trees, 30 m high. Branches short-tomentose; flowering twigs c. 3 mm in diam. Leaves 3-jugate; petiole c. 7.5 cm long; rachis c. 12 cm long, both flattened above, rounded below, short-tomentose; petiolules 7-10 mm long, thinly short-hairy. Leaflets (broadly) elliptic to ovate, slightly asymmetric, 10.5-20 by 5-7.5 cm, index 2.1-2.6, charta-ceous, above and below glabrous, midrib with short hairs; base (broadly) cuneate; apex acute; margin entire; midrib prominent above, nerves 10-15 per side, 12-22 mm apart, angle to midrib 45-55°, venation reticulate-scalariform; domatia small, pocket-like. Inflorescences 7 cm long, in fruit 11-15 cm long; bracts and bracteoles about deltoid, c. 0.6 by 0.7 mm, shortly appressed-hairy on both surfaces; pedicels c. 2 mm. Flowers green. Sepals elliptic or triangular, 1.9-2.5 by 0.9-1.4 mm. Petals 1.1-1.4 by 1-1.1 mm, shortly appressed-hairy on both surfaces, claw c. 0.2 mm long, auricles woolly. Disc c. 0.4 mm high. Filaments of stamens c. 0.9 mm long, with few hairs; anthers c. 1.2 mm long, hairy. Pistillode 1.2 by 0.9 mm. Fruits pink-scarlet, ellipsoid, rounded-deltoid in cross section, 25-30 by 20-25 mm, wall 2.5-2.9 mm thick, outside glabrous. Seeds black, sarcotesta small, basal, purple.
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