Tree, monoecious. Indumentum of solitary simple hairs only. Leaves paripinnate, 4-9-jugate; pseudostipules absent; neither petiole nor rachis winged. Leaflets opposite to alternate, glabrous or hairy, lower surface without red glands (papillose); base symmetrical to slightly oblique; entire; upper surface greenish to bluish grey when dry. Inflorescences axillary, terminal ones together pseudoterminal, thyrsoid. Flowers unisexual, regular. Sepals 5, free, equal, slightly imbricate, not petaloid, densely short-hairy on both sides. Petals 5, as long as to longer than the sepals, outside just above the base with a few hairs, inside with 2 recurved, woolly, crestless scales shorter than the petal. Disc uninterrupted, glabrous. Stamens (6) 7 or 8, much exserted; filaments hairy in the lower half; anthers glabrous. Ovary densely short-hairy, 3-locular, sessile; ovules 1 per locule; style apical, longer than the ovary, slightly hairy at the base; stigma grooved to slightly lobed. Fruits capsular, subglobular, not winged, loculicidal, smooth, densely short-hairy outside, pericarp thin-fleshy, c. 1 mm thick, incompletely 3-locular, the valves inside sericeous, septa nearly glabrous. Seeds obovoid, with a 2-(or 3-)lobed sarcotesta around the hilum.
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