Shrub to tree, 2-27 m high, dbh 1-60 cm; no buttresses; outer bark red to brown, smooth, inner bark straw-coloured; wood white. Branchlets sericeous to somewhat hirsute, especially when young; flowering twigs 1-4 mm thick. Leaves (l-)4-6-jjugate; rachis 1.5-12 cm long, winged, wing up to 1 mm broad, subglabrous to sericeous, petiole 0.6-2.2 cm long. Leaflets subsessile, opposite to alternate, ovate to obovate, 0.8-4.3 by 0.5-2 cm, index 1-2.9, asymmetrical, acroscopic side broader, sub-coriaceous, punctate; base attenuate; margin entire or usually slightly crenate, flat when crenate to revolute when entire; apex retuse to obtuse (to acute), mucronulate; upper surface (pilose, especially the midrib); lower surface duller, smooth, no papillae, usually sericeous, domatia in at least some leaflets one to several large, hirsute sacs in axils of subbasal nerves; venation on upper side flat to slightly raised, raised on lower; nerves 0.1-0.6 cm apart, marginally looped and joined; veins densely reticulate, very inconspicuous. Inflorescences axillary to pseudoterminal, unbranched to branching along the terete, sericeous, 2.5-8 cm long axis; first order branches up to 3.1 cm long; cymules cincinnate, c. 2-flowered; bracts and bracte-oles triangular, outside sericeous, inside glabrous; bracts 0.4-1.5 mm long; bracteoles 0.3-0.7 mm long; pedicels 3.3-6 mm long, sericeous, less so in articulate part. Flowers c. 4 mm in diam. Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, with glands, outside and inside glabrous, pinkish; 2 outer smaller ones 1.1-1.8 by 1-2 mm; 3 inner larger ones 1.9-3.2 by 1.9-2.6 mm. Petals 5, elliptic, c. 3.4 by 1.2 mm, pinkish white; claw c. 0.5 mm long; margin pilose, outside and inside glabrous, apex acute; scales c. 0.7 mm long, free; crest stipitate, clavate, apex lobed. Disc uninterrupted. Stamens only seen in bud, 8; filaments pilose, especially basally; anthers glabrous. Pistil only seen in bud; ovary subhirsute. Fruits with 1-3 well developed lobes, 1.1-2 by 1.7-1.9 cm, smooth (to slightly ribbed), glabrous, red when fresh, blackish when dry; stipe 2-3 mm high, rather broadly obconical; margin blunt; lobes 10-12 by 6-10 mm; septa complete. Seeds globose to obovoid, 7-9 by 6-7 mm; hilum 1.8-2.9 mm long.
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A shrub or small tree. It can grow 2-27 m tall. The trunk can be 1-60 cm across. The leaves have 4-6 leaflets. The flowering shoots are in the axils of the leaves and near the ends of branches. The flowers are 4 mm across. They are pinkish-white. The fruit have 1-3 well developed lobes. They are 1-2 cm long by 1.7-1.9 cm wide. They are red. The seeds are round or oval and 7-9 mm long by 5-7 mm wide.
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