Small tree, 5-7.5 m high, dbh c. 10 cm. Branchlets hirsute when young; flowering twigs 2.5-11 mm thick. Leaves 1-3-jugate; rachis 2.1-8.5 cm long, terete, hirsute, petiole 1-2.7 cm long. Leaflets subsessile, opposite to alternate, ovate to elliptic, 4.1-9.1 by 2-4 cm, index 2.1-2.5, symmetrical, subcoriaceous, punctate; base acute; margin entire except usually for a few subapical teeth, flat to somewhat re volute; apex acuminate to cuspidate, sometimes mucronulate; upper surface glabrous to sparsely hirsute, midrib densely hirsute; lower surface duller, smooth to papillate, hirsute, domatia many pockets in axils of nerves; venation on upper side slightly sunken (except for the raised midrib), raised below; nerves 0.3-1.3 cm apart, marginally looped and joined, less distinctly so in lower third of leaflets; veins laxly scalariform to densely reticulate, rather distinct. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched to branching basally on the terete, hirsute, 1.2-6 cm long axis; first order branches up to 1.5 cm long; cymules cincinnate, 1-or 2-flowered; bracts and bracteoles narrowly triangular, outside hirsute, inside subglabrous; bracts c. 1 mm long; bracteoles 0.4-0.8 mm long; pedicels 1-3.2 mm long, hirsute except for the (sub)glabrous articulate part. Flowers c. 3 mm in diam. Sepals 5, ovate, margin and outside pilose, margin with few glands, inside glabrous; 2 outer smaller ones 1-1.3 by 0.8-1 mm; 3 inner larger ones 1.4-2.2 by 1.1-1.5 mm, margin petaloid. Petals 5, obovate, 0.7-1 by c. 0.3 mm, white; claw 0-0.3 mm high; margin and less so outside and inside hirsute, apex acute; scales 0.6-0.7 mm long, free, apex not broadened; crest absent. Disc uninterrupted. Stamens 8; filaments 1.1-1.8 mm long, pilose, especially basally; anthers c. 0.3 mm long, glabrous. Pistil: ovary c. 0.3 mm long, subhirsute; style and stigma c. 0.2 mm long. Fruits with 1-3 well developed lobes, 0.6-0.8 by 0.8-1.2 cm, smooth to rugose, glabrous, red when fresh, blackish when dry; stipe 1.5-2 mm high, slender; margin blunt; lobes 7.5-8 by 6-6.5 mm. Seeds obovoid, 5-6 by 3-4 mm; hilum c. 1 mm long.
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