Small trees, 6-20 m high, dbh 15-25 cm; outer bark grey to brown or black, inner bark white to light brown; sapwood white or yellowish, heart-wood brownish. Branches shortly appressed-hairy to short-tomentose, glabrescent; flowering twigs 1.5-3 mm in diam. Leaves (l-)2-4(-5)-jugate; petiole 1.5-9 cm long; rachis 2-14.5 cm long, both flattened above, rounded below or terete, shortly appressed-hairy to short-tomentose, glabrescent; petiolules 3-6 mm long, short-hairy to glabrous. Leaflets elliptic to (narrowly) ovate, slightly asymmetric, 2.5-17.5(-31) by 1-8 cm, index (1.5-)2-3.5, chartaceous, above glabrous, rarely midrib and nerves pilose, below glabrous to thinly pilose, midrib and nerves (thinly) pilose; base cuneate to rounded; apex acute, exceptionally acuminate; margin entire or irregularly dentate, occasionally double serrate; midrib slightly prominent above, nerves 8-19 per side, 4-17 mm apart, angle to midrib 45-65°, venation scalariform or reticulate-scalariform; domatia pocket-like to saccate, ciliate. Inflorescences 1-2.5 cm long, in fruit 2.5-11.5 cm long; bracts and bracteoles deltoid or triangular, 1-1.2 by 0.7-1.1 mm, short appressed hairy on both surfaces. Sepals about elliptic, 1.4-2.1 by 0.5-1 mm. Petals pale yellow tinged with pink, 1.2-1.7 by 0.6-1.2 mm, shortly appressed-hairy on both surfaces except apex, ciliate, claw 0.6-0.9 mm long, auricles ciliate. Disc 0.4-0.6 mm high, glabrous. Filaments of stamens 1.1-1.6 mm; anthers 0.4-0.6 mm, glabrous. Style c. 2.6 mm, stigma c. 1.2 mm. Pistillode c. 1.4 by 0.6 mm. Fruits green when young, later on pale yellow, orange red or red, brown or black when old, subglobular, rounded-deltoid in cross section, 13-25 by 11-20 mm, wall 1.4-3.4 mm thick, outside glabrous. Seeds ellipsoid to obovoid, 7-15 by 4-7 mm, sarcotesta shieldlike, rounded, covering 1/5-⅓ of the seed.
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