Shrub, 1-5 m high. Branchlets shortly sericeous, especially when young; flowering twigs 1-3.5 mm thick. Leaves 3-5-jugate; rachis 0.6-5.4 cm long, slightly winged, wing at most 1 mm broad, slightly pilose, petiole 0.6-1.7 cm long. Leaflets sub-sessile, opposite to alternate, elliptic to obovate, 1-1.9 by 0.5-0.9 cm, index 1.7-2.4, often asymmetrical, then acroscopic side broader, very coriaceous, usually punctate; base attenuate; margin entire, except for the usually crenate apex, revo-lute; apex emarginate to acute, sometimes mucro-nulate; upper surface glabrous except for the sometimes puberulous midrib, often wax; lower surface duller, papillate, sericeous, domatia absent; venation on upper surface flat to slightly raised, raised below; nerves 0.1-0.4 cm apart, marginally looped and joined; veins densely reticulate, inconspicuous. Inflorescences axillary to pseudoterminal, unbranched to at most branching along the terete, sericeous, 0.6-9.7 cm long axis; first order branches up to 0.5 cm long; cymules cincinnate, 1-or 2-flowered; bracts and bracteoles triangular, outside sericeous, inside glabrous; bracts 0.5-1.3 mm long; bracteoles 0.3-0.6 mm long; pedicels 2-4 mm long, sericeous, articulate part less so. Flowers in bud; latter light green, tinged red. Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, with glands, outside and inside glabrous, light green; 2 outer smaller ones 1.4-2 by 1.6-2.2 mm; 3 inner larger ones 2.2-3 by 2.2-3 mm, margin petaloid. Petals still immature, 5, clawed, white, margin pilose, outside and inside glabrous; scales still small. Disc uninterrupted. Stamens 8; filaments 1.7-2 mm long, completely pilose, especially basally, light green; anthers c. 0.6 mm long, glabrous, pink. Pistil: ovary c. 0.5 mm high, subhirsute; style and stigma c. 0.2 mm long. Fruits with 2 or 3 well developed lobes, 1-1.2 by 1.1-1.4 cm, smooth to slightly rugose, glabrous, brownish red when fresh, blackish when dry; stipe 1.5-2 mm high, broadly obconical; margin blunt; lobes 7-9 by 7-9 mm; septa complete. Seeds immature.
Home