Tree, 6-13 m high, dbh 15-20 cm; outer bark grey; wood white, hard. Branchlets sericeous when young; flowering twigs 3-8.5 mm in diam. Leaves 3-5-jugate; rachis 4.3-22 cm long, basally terete to upwards flattened, subglabrous, petiole 1.8-8.3 cm long; petiolules up to 1 cm long. Leaflets opposite to subopposite, ovate, falcate, 4.9-14.4 by 1-3.6 cm, index 3.5-5, asymmetrical, acroscopic side broader, (very) coriaceous, not punctate; base attenuate; margin entire, flat to revolute; apex cuspidate to caudate, gradually narrowing, usually mucronulate; upper surface glabrous; lower surface dull, densely whitish papillate, sericeous, domatia 0 or 1 small sac on basiscopic side in axil of second nerve; venation on upper surface flat (to raised), concolorous with lamina, below raised; nerves 0.2-1.8 cm apart, marginally looped and joined; veins laxly reticulate, usually rather indistinct. Inflorescences axillary, branching basally and along the usually flattened, brown sericeous, 1.3-9.5 cm long axis; first order branches up to 3.3 cm long; cymules cincinnate, c. 2-flowered; bracts and bracte-oles triangular, outside sericeous, inside subglabrous; bracts 0.8-1.2 mm long; bracteoles 0.7-0.8 mm long; pedicels 1.8-4.5 mm long, sericeous except for the subglabrous articulate part. Flowers c. 4.2 mm in diam.; buds dark wine-red. Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, with glands, outside and inside (sub)glabrous, green to pink; 2 outer smaller ones 1.2-1.3 by 1.1-1.3 mm; 3 inner larger ones 1.5-2.2 by 1.5-2.2 mm, margin petaloid. Petals 5, elliptic to obovate, 2.5-2.7 by 0.6-1 mm, white to pink; blade obovate, gradually decurrent into the 0.7-1 mm long claw, margin pilose, outside and inside glabrous, apex obtuse to acute; scales 1.1-1.7 mm long, free; crest a pilose flat part of the bifid scale apex to subglabrous and clavate. Disc interrupted. Stamens 8; filaments 2.8-3.7 mm long, pilose, especially basally; anthers c. 0.3 mm long, glabrous, pink. Pistil: ovary 0.4-0.7 mm long, sub-hirsute; style and stigma 0.4-0.5 mm long. Fruits immature.
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