Trees to 5 m tall. Leaves (1-)3-or 5-foliolate; leaflet blades oblong, lanceolate, or ovate, 5-10 × 2-3 cm, papery or rigidly so, base attenuate to cuneate, margin entire, apex acuminate to mucronate. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, less than 3 cm or rarely ca. 4 cm. Sepals broadly ovate to ovate, less than 1 mm or ca. 1 mm. Petals ca. 3 mm. Filaments linear or widest in ± their basal half. Ovary terete in bud, becoming broadly conic, gourd-shaped, or ovoid at anthesis, slightly pubescent or glabrous. Fruit reddish to orange, subglobose, 0.8-1.4 cm in diam., 1-or 2-seeded. Fl. and fr. year-round.
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