Shrub to tree, 3-25 m high. Branchlets sericeous, especially when young; flowering twigs c. 1.7 mm thick. Leaves 1-jugate; rachis 0.2-1.3 cm long, terete, not to slightly winged, sericeous, petiole 0.2-1 cm long. Leaflets subsessile, opposite, elliptic to obovate, 1.1-6.3 by 0.5-2.6 cm, index 2.2-3.3, + symmetrical, coriaceous to very coriaceous, usually punctate; base attenuate; margin entire, flat to revolute; apex retuse to acuminate, sometimes mucronulate; upper surface glabrous, (wax); lower surface dull, papillate, glabrous to very sparsely sericeous, domatia absent or a single small or large sac on basiscopic side in axil of second nerve; venation raised on both sides; nerves 0.2-1.1 cm apart, marginally looped and joined; veins densely reticulate, very conspicuous, even the vein-lets. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched to branching basally on the terete, sericeous, c. 3.9 cm long axis; cymules cincinnate, 2-flowered; bracts and bracteoles immature or caducous; pedicels not yet full-grown. Flowers in bud. Sepals and petals 5, immature, white. Disc uninterrupted. Stamens 8, immature. Pistil not measured. Fruits with 2 or 3 well developed lobes, 1.1-1.2 by 1.1-1.2 cm, rugose, glabrous, blackish when dry; stipe c. 3.5 mm high, rather broadly obconical; margin blunt; lobes c. 8 by 5 mm; septa complete. Seeds unknown.
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