Tree, 5-25 m high, dbh 5-30 cm; outer bark slightly pustular, grey to red-brown, inner red-orange; wood of moderate weight and hardness, cream. Branchlets shortly sericeous when young; flowering twigs 5-19 mm thick. Leaves 2-or 3-jugate; rachis 5.8-21 cm long, terete, glabrous, petiole 1.7-9.5 cm long. Leaflets subsessile, opposite to subopposite, ovate, 10.9-30 by 3.8-13.3 cm, index 2.1-2.9, + symmetrical, otherwise aeroscopic side broader, coriaceous, not punctate; base attenuate; margin entire, flat; apex acute to cuspidate, mucronulate; upper surface glabrous, usually wax; lower surface duller, smooth, no papillae, glabrous, domatia absent; venation on upper side flat (to raised), raised on lower; nerves 0.4-4.3 cm apart, marginally looped and joined, less distinctly so in lower part of leaflets; veins laxly reticulate, indistinct. Inflorescences ramiflorous (to axillary), unbranched to branching basally and along the flattened to terete, (sub)sericeous, 0.1-12.1 cm long axis; first order branches up to 8.5 cm long; cymules cincinnate; bracts and bracteoles triangular, outside hirsute, inside glabrous; bracts 0.9-1 mm long; bracteoles 0.3-0.6 mm long; pedicels 4-5 6 mm long, sericeous except for the subglabrous articulate part. Flowers unknown. Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, outside and inside glabrous, light green; 2 outer smaller ones 0.8-1.7 by 1.5-1.8 mm, margin with glands; 3 inner larger ones 1.9-3 by 2-3 mm, margin petaloid, without glands. Petals unknown. Disc interrupted. Stamens unknown. Pistil unknown. Fruits with 1-3 well developed lobes, 1 2-1.6 by 2-2.7 cm, smooth to slightly rugose or ribbed, glabrous, red when fresh, black when dry; stipe 1-1.5 mm high, broadly obconical; margin bl unt; lobes 12-16 by 10-14 mm; wall 1-3 mm thick near suture; septa complete. Seeds obovoid, c, 7.5 by 5.5 mm; pseudo-funicle often reduced in size to a basal rim on arillode; hilum c. 1.1 mm Icing.
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