Small tree, up to 5 m high. Branchlets shortly sericeous when young; flowering twigs 2.5-4.5 mm thick. Leaves (3-)5-7-jugate; rachis 7.3-14.7 cm long, terete, not to very slightly winged, subgla-brous to subsericeous, petiole 1.6-4.5 cm long; petiolules up to 0.6 cm long. Leaflets opposite to subopposite, (ovate to) elliptic, 3.8-6.3 by 1-1.7 cm, index 3.7-4.7, asymmetrical, acroscopic side broader, coriaceous, punctate; base attenuate; margin entire, flat; apex acute to cuspidate, mucronu-late; upper surface glabrous; lower surface dull, papillate, very sparsely subsericeous, domatia at least in some leaflets a single small sac on basi-scopic side in axil of second nerve; venation on upper side flat, except for the raised midrib, raised below; nerves 0.2-0.9 cm apart, marginally looped and joined, (less distinctly so in lower part of leaflets); veins laxly reticulate, indistinct. Inflorescences axillary, branching basally and along the terete, slightly sericeous, 0.5-6.5 cm long axis; first order branches up to 0.9 cm long; cymules cincin-nate, c. 2-flowered; bracts and bracteoles triangular, outside pilose, inside glabrous; bracts c. 1 mm long; bracteoles c. 0.4 mm long; pedicels 2.1-2.5 mm long, sericeous except for the subglabrous articulate part. Flowers c. 2.8 mm in diam., smelling sweet. Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, outside and inside glabrous; 2 outer smaller ones 1.2-1.5 by 0.8-0.9 mm, margin with glands; 3 inner larger ones 1.5-1.8 by 1.3-1.5 mm, margin petaloid, without glands. Petals 5, obovate, 1.5-1.7 by 0.3-0.5 mm, white; claw c. 0.3 mm high; margin densely pilose, outside and inside (sub)glabrous, apex acute; scales c. 1 mm long, free, folded outwards, apex not broadened; crest absent; petal between two adjacent large sepals not reduced. Disc uninterrupted. Stamens 8; filaments c. 2.3 mm long, pilose, especially basally; anthers 0.3-0.4 mm long, sparsely pilose. Pistil: ovary c. 0.7 mm high, sub-hirsute; style and stigma c. 0.5 mm long. Fruits unknown.
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