Small trees with several trunks, 5-16 m high, dbh 15-17.5 cm; bark smooth, brownish grey mottled with grey, inner bark pale brown; wood pale straw. Branches strigose; flowering twigs 2(-3) mm in diam. Leaves 2-5-jugate; petiole 2/-4.5(-7.5) cm long, terete or flattened above, rounded below; rachis 3.5-13 cm long, flattened above, rounded below, both strigose; petiolules 2-5 mm long, short-hairy to glabrous. Leaflets (narrowly) elliptic or ovate, slightly asymmetric, 7-14 by 2.5-5 cm, index 1.8-4, chartaceous, above and below glabrous, midrib below glabrous or strigose; base cuneate to rounded; apex acute; margin entire; midrib prominent above, nerves 8-14 per side, 7-15 mm apart, angle to midrib c. 45°, venation reticulate-scalariform; domatia if present small, pocket-like. Inflorescences c. 4 cm long, in fruit 5-8.5 cm long; bracts and bracteoles ± triangular, c. 0.7 by 0.5 mm, shortly appressed-hairy on both surfaces; pedicels c. 4 mm long. Flower buds ± globular, 1.9-2 by 1.9 mm. Sepals (narrowly) elliptic, 2.9-3.2 by 1.1-1.6 mm. Petals creamy with reddish tinge, 1.6-1.9 by 1.2-1.7 mm, glabrous on both surfaces, claw 0.6 mm long, auricles ciliate. Disc c. 0.7 mm high. Filaments of stamens 1.6-1.9 mm long; anthers 1.7-1.9 mm long, hairy. Pistillode c. 1.7 by 0.7 mm. Fruits red, rarely cream suffused pink, ± globular, deltoid in cross section, 10-13 by 10 mm, wall 1.4-2.1 mm thick, outside with scattered short hairs. Seeds broadly obovoid, 5-6 by 3 mm, sarcotesta rounded, covering up to ⅓ of the seed.
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