Shrub to tree, 1-8 m high, dbh c. 15 cm. Branchlets sericeous when young; flowering twigs 2.5-4.5 mm thick. Leaves 1-3-jugate; rachis 1.1-9.2 cm long, dorsally flattened, subglabrous (to sericeous), petiole 1-3.3 cm long; petiolules up to 1 cm long. Leaflets opposite to subopposite, elliptic (to obovate), 2.5-7.6 by 1-2.5 cm, index 2.1-3.4, rather symmetrical, very coriaceous, not punctate; base attenuate; margin entire, revolute; apex rounder to acuminate, very apex rounded to acute; upper surface glabrous except for the basally puber-ulous midrib; lower surface dull, papillate, shortly sericeous, domatia absent or 1 small sac on basi-scopic side in axil of ± second nerve; venation raised, concolorous with lamina; nerves 0.3-1.7 cm apart, marginally looped and joined; veins laxly reticulate, rather distinct. Inflorescences axillary, blanching along the flattened, sericeous, glabrescent, 1.2-9.8 cm long axis; first order branches up to 3.9 cm long; cymules cincinnate; bracts and bracteoles triangular, outside sericeous, inside glabious; bracts c. 1.3 mm long; bracteoles 0.3-0.8 rrm long; pedicels 3.2-6.3 mm long, sericeous. Flowers unknown. Sepals 5, ovate, margin and outside sericeous, inside glabrous, glands along margin unknown; 2 outer smaller ones 1.4-2.2 by 1 9-2 mm; 3 inner larger ones c. 2.3 by 2-2.2 mm, margin petaloid. Disc interrupted. Fruits with 1-3 well developed lobes, 1.2-1.4 by 1.1-1.9 cm, smooth to rugose-ruminate to rough, glabrous, blackish when dry; stipe 2-3 mm high, slender; margin blunt; lobes 8-10 by 7-10 mm. Seeds obovoid, 7.5-8.5 by 6.2-6.8 mm; hilum 1-1.3 mm Iong.
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