Treelet, 5-8 m high. Branchlets sericeous when young; flowering twigs 3-6.5 mm thick. Leaves 2-5-jugate; rachis 4.4-20 cm long, terete, glabrous, petiole 2.2-6.6 cm long. Leaflets subsessile, opposite to alternate, (ovate to) elliptic, 4.9-13.5 by 1.4-4.6 cm, index 2.4-3.8, slightly asymmetrical, acroscopic side broader, coriaceous, punctate; base attenuate; margin entire (to with a tooth subapically on either side of the margin), flat; apex acuminate to cuspidate, usually not mucronulate; upper surface glabrous; lower surface duller, smooth, no papillae, glabrous, domatia (0 or) 1 (to many) sacs to in axils of nerves; venation flat on upper side, raised on lower; nerves 0.3-3 cm apart, marginally looped and joined; veins laxly reticulate, rather distinct, especially below. Inflorescences axillary, branching basally and along the terete to flattened, sericeous, 1.6-8.2 cm long axis; first order branches up to 3.1 cm long; cymules cincin-nate, c. 3-flowered; bracts and bracteoles triangular, outside sericeous, inside subglabrous; bracts 0.5-0.7 mm long; bracteoles 0.2-0.3 mm long; pedicels 1.2-3.2 mm long, sericeous except for the subglabrous articulate part. Flowers c. 2 mm in diam. Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, outside and inside glabrous; 2 outer smaller ones 0.8-1.9 by 0.8-1.3 mm, margin with few glands; 3 inner larger ones 1.3-2.5 by 1.3-1.9 mm, margin petaloid, without glands. Petals 5, very reduced, elliptic, 0.8-1.2 by 0.3-0.4 mm; claw 0.2-0.3 mm high; margin pilose, outside and inside glabrous, apex obtuse to acute; scales 0.3-0.4 mm long, free, apex very slender; crest absent. Disc uninterrupted. Stamens 8; filaments 1-2.3 mm long, pilose, especially basally; anthers c. 0.3 mm long, glabrous. Pistil: ovary 0.2-0.7 mm high, subhirsute; style and stigma 0.1-0.7 mm long. Fruits with 1-3 well developed lobes, 0.7-0.9 by 0.7-1.3 cm, smooth to somewhat rugose-ruminate, glabrous, red when fresh, blackish when dry; stipe c. 2 mm high, slender; margin blunt; lobes 5-7 by 4.5-5.5 mm. Seeds obovoid, 5-6.4 by 4-4.8 mm; hilum 0.7-1 mm long.
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A small tree. It grows 5-8 m tall. The leaves have 2-5 pairs of leaflets. The flowering shoots are in the axils of leaves. The fruit have 1-3 lobes. They are red. They are 7-9 mm long.
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