Tree, 1-15 m high, dbh at least 4 cm; bark grey; wood white, hard. Branchlets sericeous when young, hairs brownish; flowering twigs 1-6 mm thick. Leaves 2-5-jugate; rachis 2.8-20.5 cm long, basally terete to apically flattened above, glabrous, petiole 2.1-9.1 cm long; petiolules up to 1 cm long. Leaflets opposite to subopposite, ovate to elliptic, 3.7-11.3 by 0.8-4.8 cm, index 2.4-4.6, asymmetrical, not falcate, acroscopic side broader, coriaceous to very coriaceous, punctate; base attenuate; margin entire, flat to revolute; apex acuminate to caudate, usually abruptly narrowing (with a sinus), usually mucronulate; upper surface glabrous (except the puberulous midrib); lower surface dull, papillate, glabrous to shortly subsericeous, domain absent to a single small sac on basiscopic side n axil of second nerve; venation raised, above con-dolorous with lamina; veins 0.2-2.3 cm apart, marginally looped and joined, but often less distinctly,o in lower part of leaflets; nerves densely to laxly eticulate, rather distinct. Inflorescences axillary, inbranched to branching basally and along the flatened, subsericeous, glabrescent, 1.9-14.4 cm long Axis; first order branches up to 6.4 cm long; cymules cincinnate, c. 3-flowered; bracts and bracteoles triangular, outside sericeous, inside glabrous; bracts 0.6-1.3 mm long; bracteoles 0.3-0.9 mm long; pedicels 2.5-4.9 mm long, sericeous, glabrescent. Buds dark wine-red. Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, with glands, outside and inside t[sub)glabrous, pink; 2 outer smaller ones 0.9-1.5 by 1.3-1.5 mm; 3 inner larger ones 2-3.5 by 1.8-3.5 mm, margin petaloid. Petals 5, elliptic, 2.8-.3.2 by c. 1 mm, pinkish outside, white inside; blade elliptic, gradually decurrent into the c. 0.4 mm long claw, margin pilose, outside and inside glabrous, iipex acute; scales c. 1.5 mm long, free, basally not auriculate, membranous margin distinct; crest a flat, pilose bifid part of scale apex when young, to clavate and glabrous when mature. Disc interrupted. Stamens 8; filaments c. 4 mm long, hirsute, especially basally; anthers c. 0.7 by 0.6 mm, glabrous, light pink. Pistil: ovary c. 0.6 mm high, subhirsute; style and stigma c. 0.4 mm long. Fruits with 1-3 well developed lobes, c. 1.5 by 1.5-2.1 cm, smooth, glabrous, blackish when dry; stipe c. 3.5 mm high, slender; margin blunt; lobes c. 11 by 5 mm. Seeds obovoid, c. 9 by 5 mm; hilum c. 1.4 mm long.
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