Shrub to tree, 2-15 m high, dbh up to 19 cm; fluted; ornamental; outer bark brownish grey, not fissured, with many small elevated lenticels, inner bark cream-coloured; sapwood pale reddish cream, heartwood reddish ochre. Branchlets hirsute; flowering twigs 2.2-7 mm thick. Leaves 2-7-jugate; rachis 1.8-15.5 cm long, terete to upwards flattened above, hirsute, petiole 1.1-6.2 cm long. Leaflets subsessile, subopposite to alternate, (ovate to) elliptic, 3-10.7 by 1-3.5 cm, index 2.4-3.8, usually somewhat asymmetrical, acroscopic side broader, coriaceous, punctate; base attenuate; margin entire, flat (to revolute); apex acuminate to cuspidate, usually not mucronulate; upper surface hirsute; lower surface duller, smooth, no papillae, hirsute, small red erect glands abundant, domatia many pockets in axils of nerves; venation on upper side flat, raised on lower; nerves 0.3-1.6 cm apart, marginally looped and joined; veins laxly reticulate, rather indistinct. Inflorescences axillary, branching basally and along the terete to somewhat flattened, hirsute, 1.5-17 cm long axis; first order branches up to 5 cm long; cymules cincinnate, 2-or 3-flowered; bracts and bracteoles triangular, outside sericeous, inside subglabrous; bracts 0.7-1 mm long; bracteoles 0.3-0.5 mm long; pedicels 1.8-4 mm long, sericeous, less so in articulate part. Flowers 3.2-3.5 mm in diam., buds green. Sepals 5, ovate, margin and basally the outside pilose, margin with glands, inside glabrous; 2 outer smaller ones 1-1.8 by 1-1.8 mm; 3 inner larger ones 1.8-2.8 by 1.4-3.2 mm, margin petaloid. Petals 5, elliptic, 1-1.9 by 0.3-0.7 mm; claw 0.4-0.8 mm high; margin pilose, outside and inside (sub)glabrous, apex obtuse; scales 0.9-1.3 mm long, free; crest absent (to slender pilose part of a bifid scale apex). Disc uninterrupted. Stamens 8; filaments 3.8-4.3 mm long, pilose, especially basally; anthers 0.4-0.5 mm long, glabrous. Pistil: ovary 0.3-0.5 mm long, subhirsute; stigma and style 0.1-0.6 mm long. Fruits with 1-3 well developed lobes, 0.7-1.1 by 0.7-1.5 cm, smooth to sometimes somewhat ru-gose-ruminate, glabrous, red when fresh, blackish when dry; stipe c. 1.5 mm high, slender; margin blunt; lobes 5-8 by 6.5-8 mm. Seeds obovoid, 5.2-5.3 by 2.9-4.2 mm, brown; hilum 1-1.1 mm long.
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