Treelet, 5-12 m high, dbh c. 8 cm; outer bark black, inner bark pinkish brown; sapwood cream, heartwood reddish brown. Branchlets sericeous when young; flowering twigs 3.5-5 mm thick. Leaves 2-5-jugate; rachis 4.3-15.2 cm long, somewhat flattened above, sericeous, petiole 3-6.1 cm long; petiolules up to 1 cm long. Leaflets opposite to alternate, ovate, falcate, 5.9-13.2 by 1.5-3.3 cm, index 3.6-4.4, asymmetrical, acroscopic side broader, coriaceous to very coriaceous, not punctate; base attenuate; margin entire, flat; apex cuspidate to caudate, mucronulate; upper surface glabrous except for the puberulous midrib; lower surface dull, papillate, shortly sericeous, domatia 0-2 pockets, especially on basiscopic side in axil of second nerve; venation flat above, raised below; nerves 0.2-1.3 cm apart, marginally looped and joined; veins laxly reticulate, indistinct. Inflorescences axillary to pseudoterminal, branching along the flattened to terete, sericeous, 3.1-15 cm long axis; first order branches up to 4.8 cm long; cymules cincinnate, c. 4-flowered; bracts and bracteoles triangular, outside sericeous, inside glabrous; bracts 0.9-1.1 mm long; bracteoles 0.5-0.6 mm long; pedicels 2.5-3 mm long, sericeous except for the (sub)glabrous articulate part. Flowers c. 3 mm in diam. Sepals 5, ovate, margin (and outside) pilose, margin with glands, inside glabrous; 2 outer smaller ones 0.9-1.2 by 1-1.3 mm; 3 inner larger ones 1.8-2.7 by 1.5-2.5 mm, margin petaloid. Petals 5, elliptic, 3-3.2 by 1.2-1.5 mm, blade obovate, gradually decurrent into the c. 0.5 mm high claw, margin pilose, outside and inside glabrous, apex acute; scales 1.7-1.8 mm long, free; crest clavate, stipi-tate, glabrous. Disc interrupted. Stamens 8; filaments c. 4.2 mm long, pilose, especially basally; anthers c. 0.7 mm long, pilose. Pistil: ovary c. 0.6 mm long, subhirsute; style and stigma c. 0.4 mm long. Fruits with 1-3 well developed lobes, 1-1.4 by 1-1.7 cm, slightly ribbed, glabrous, red when fresh, blackish when dry; stipe c. 2 mm high, broadly obconical, indistinct; margin blunt; lobes 8-9 by 7-9 mm; septa complete. Seeds obovoid, c. 9 by 6 mm; hilum c. 1.2 mm long.
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