Small trees or shrubs, 4-22 m high, dbh 10-30 cm; bark smooth, brownish, 0.5-1 mm thick, living bark brownish, 3-10 mm thick; wood dirty white. Branches shortly appressed-hairy to short-tomentose, glabrescent; flowering twigs 1-3 mm in diam. Leaves 2-5-jugate; petiole 1.5-5.5 cm long, usually terete; rachis 1.5-12.5 cm long, flattened above, rounded below, both shortly appressed-hairy to short-tomentose, glabrescent; petiolules 2-7 mm long, shortly hairy to glabrous. Leaflets (narrowly) elliptic to ovate, slightly asymmetric, 4.5-19 by 1-5.5 cm, index 2.2-4.6(-8), chartaceous, above and below glabrous, midrib acute; margin entire or irregularly dentate; midrib above exceptionally with few hairs, below glabrous slightly prominent above, nerves 8-20 per side, 3-to thinly pilose; base cuneate to rounded; apex 17 mm apart, angle to midrib 40-70°, venation reticulate-scalariform; domatia usually absent, if present very small pocket-like. Inflorescences 1.5-6.5 cm long, in fruit 3-10 cm long; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate to deltoid, 0.7-2 by 0.6-1.4 mm, shortly appressed-hairy on both surfaces; pedicels c. 1.9 mm long. Flower buds green or brown, ± ovoid, flattened, c. 1.5 by 1.1 mm. Sepals pale green or pale pink, (broadly) elliptic, rarely lanceolate, 1-2.7 by 0.5—1.6 mm. Petals white, 0.6-1.1 by 0.7-1.9 mm, outside shortly appressed-hairy or glabrous, margin ciliate, inside glabrous, claw 0.2-1.2 mm long, auricles woolly or ciliate. Disc 0.5-1.1 mm high. Filaments of stamens pale pink, 1.2-3.8 mm long; anthers yellowish, 1.1-2 mm long, hairy. Ovary pale green; style 1.4-4 mm long; stigma 0.7-2 mm long. Pistillode 1.1-1.9 by 0.8-1.2 mm. Fruits green or red-brown to black out-side, red-brown inside, ± globular, rounded-deltoid in cross section, 10-20 by 9-18 mm, wall 1.2-2.4(-3.7) mm thick, outside glabrous. Seeds ellipsoid to obovoid, 4-11 by 4-8 mm, sarcotesta 2-lobed, covering up to (¼—)l/2 of the seed.
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