Tree, 13-20 m high, dbh 20-25 cm. Branchlets sericeous when very young; flowering twigs 3-4 mm thick. Leaves 2-7-jugate; rachis 1.9-17.3 cm long, terete, not to slightly winged, subglabrous, petiole 1.8-4.6 cm long. Leaflets subsessile, opposite to alternate, elliptic, 3.5-8.5 by 1.7-3.2 cm, index 2.1-3, asymmetrical, acroscopic side broader, (sub)coriaceous, not punctate; base attenuate; margin laxly crenate, slightly revolute; apex obtusely acuminate to caudate, usually mucronulate; upper surface glabrous, (wax); lower surface duller, smooth, no papillae, glabrous, domatia absent to several sacs, mainly on basiscopic side in axils of nerves; venation on upper side flat except for the raised midrib, slightly raised below, also the flat midrib; nerves 0.2-1 cm apart, marginally looped and joined; veins laxly reticulate, indistinct. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched to branching along the terete, subsericeous, 2.4-13 cm long axis; first order branches up to 5.3 cm long; cymules cincinnate, c. 4~flowered; bracts and bracteoles triangular, outside sericeous, inside glabrous; bracts 0.8-1 mm long; bracteoles 0.3-0.5 mm long; pedicels 3.8-8 mm long, glabrous or very sparsely pilose. Flowers c. 4 mm in diam. Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, outside and inside glabrous; 2 outer smaller ones 1.2-2.2 by 1.8-2.3 mm, margin with glands; 3 inner larger ones 3-4 by 3-4.2 mm, margin petaloid, without glands. Petals 4, obovate, 2.9-3.1 by 1.5-2.1 mm, white; claw 0.2-0.3 mm high; margin subglabrous, outside and inside glabrous, apex truncate to rounded; scales 2-2.2 mm long, free; crest usually a pilose bifid scale apex or cla-vate, glabrous. Disc interrupted, very asymmetrical. Stamens 8; filaments 2.3-4.6 mm long, only basally pilose; anthers 0.3-0.4 mm long, glabrous. Pistil: ovary 0.4-0.6 mm long, subhirsute; style and stigma c. 0.3 mm long. Fruits with 2 or 3 well developed lobes, c. 2 by 1.4 cm, smooth, glabrous, red when fresh, blackish when dry; stipe indistinct, broadly obconical; margin very sharp; lobes c. 0.8 by 1.6 cm; septa above attachment of funicle incomplete. Seeds immature.
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