Trees or small shrubs, 3-32 m high, dbh 30 cm; outer bark smooth, greyish brown, inner bark straw, slash light brown; wood pale brownish yellow. Branches densely short-tomentose, glabrescent; flowering twigs 2-4 mm in diam. Leaves 2-4-ju-gate; petiole 2.5-6(-13) cm long; rachis 2-15 cm long, both terete or flattened above, rounded below, densely short-tomentose; petiolules 2-10 mm long, short-tomentose. Leaflets elliptic to ovate, (slightly) asymmetric, 7.5-13 by 3-6 cm, index 2.1-3 A, dark green above, light green below, (thick) chartaceous, above and below glabrous to pilose, midrib and nerves more densely so; base cuneate to rounded; apex acute or acuminate; margin entire; midrib prominent above, nerves 13-18 per side, 4-15 mm apart, angle to midrib 50-55°, venation reticulate-scalariform; domatia small, pocket-like. Inflorescences 2-8.5 cm long, in fruit 3.5-4.5 cm long; bracts and bracteoles triangular, 1.2 by 1 mm, outside appressed-hairy, inside with few hairs; pedicels 1.2-1.7 mm long. Flower buds yellowish brown. Sepals rarely 6, elliptic, 1.5-1.9 by 0.7-1.1 mm. Petals 0.9-1.5 by 0.6-1.1 mm, outside with few appressed hairs, margin ciliate, inside appressed-hairy, claw 0.3-0.6 mm long, auricles woolly. Disc 0.5-0.6 mm high. Filaments of stamens 1.2-1.7 mm long; anthers 1.1-1.4 mm long, glabrous. Pistillode c. 1.4 by 0.9 mm. Fruits green turning orange red or brown when ripe, ellipsoid to obovoid or almost globular, rounded-deltoid in cross section, 11-15 by 12-14 mm, wall 1.2-1.9 mm thick, outside glabrous to thinly appressed-hairy. Seeds ellipsoid or obovoid, 5-8 by 3-4 mm, sarcotesta rounded or deltoid, covering 1/5-½ of the seed.
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