Tree, c. 20 m high, dbh up to 20 cm; buttresses absent; bark brown, moderately fissured, slightly scaly in places, red-brown; wood straw; odour and exudate absent. Branchlets sericeous when young; flowering twigs 2-2.5 mm thick. Leaves 1-or 2-jugate; rachis 1.2-4.3 cm long, flattened above, glabrous, petiole 1.3-2.7 cm long. Leaflets subses-sile, opposite to subopposite, elliptic, 4.2-4.9 by 1.1-1.7 cm, index 2.9-3.8, asymmetrical, acroscop-ic side broader, coriaceous, punctate; base attenuate; margin entire, flat; apex acuminate, mucronu-late; upper surface glabrous; lower surface dull, papillate, glabrous except for a few hairs near domatium, latter a single, large, highly domed sac on basiscopic side in axil of ± second nerve; venation on upper side flat, raised below; nerves 0.2-0.8 cm apart, marginally looped and joined, less distinctly so in lower part of leaflets; veins densely reticulate, distinct. Inflorescences axillary, branching along the flattened, subsericeous, 3-10 cm long axis; first order branches up to 4.8 cm long; cymules cincinnate, c. 2-flowered; bracts and bracteoles triangular, outside sericeous, inside glabrous; bracts 0.7-0.8 mm long; bracteoles 0.2-0.4 mm long; pedicels c. 3 mm long, sericeous except for the (sub)glabrous articulate part. Flowers c. 3.5 mm in diam. Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, with glands, outside and inside glabrous; 2 outer smaller ones c. 1.5 by 1.7 mm; 3 inner larger ones 1.8-2.5 by c. 1.8 mm, margin petaloid. Petals 5, elliptic, 3-3.2 by 1.2-1.3 mm, white; claw c. 0.8 mm high; margin pilose, outside and inside glabrous, apex obtuse to acute; scales 1.5-1.8 mm long, free; crest clavate, stipitate, apex lobed; petal between two adjacent large sepals not reduced in size. Disc interrupted. Stamens 8; filaments 1.7-1.8 mm long, pilose, especially basally; anthers c. 0.4 mm long, glabrous. Pistil: ovary c. 1.7 mm long, sub-hirsute; style and stigma c. 1.8 mm long. Fruits unknown.
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