Tree, 7-8 m high, dbh c. 12.5 cm. Branchlets golden sericeous (to hirsute) when young; flowering twigs 2-4 mm thick. Leaves 2-5-jugate; rachis 2.8-17 cm long, basally terete, upwards flattened above, subglabrous, petiole 1.5-6.3 cm long; petiolules up to 1 cm long. Leaflets opposite to alternate, ovate, falcate, 2.8-12 by 0.7-3 cm, index 3.5-4.5, asymmetrical, acroscopic side broader, coriaceous to very coriaceous, not punctate; base attenuate; margin entire, flat to revolute; apex cuspidate to caudate, usually mucronulate; upper surface glabrous to puberulous on the midrib; lower surface dull, papillate, short (to long) sericeous, domatia a single (to many) sac(s) on basiscopic side in axil of second nerve, small; venation conspicuously raised, discolorous with lamina; nerves 0.3-2.1 cm apart, marginally looped and joined; veins densely reticulate, very distinct. Inflorescences axillary, branching basally and along the usually flattened, sericeous (to hirsute), 3.4-23.3 cm long axis; first order branches up to 11.2 cm long; cymules cincinnate (to dichasial), 2-5-flowered; bracts and bracteoles triangular, outside sericeous, inside glabrous; bracts 1-1.8 mm long; bracteoles 0.3-1.1 mm long; pedicels 2.3-5 mm long, sericeous except for the usually subglabrous articulate part. Flowers 3.5-3.8 mm in diam. Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, with glands, (outside pilose), inside glabrous; 2 outer smaller ones 1.5-2.2 by 1.1-2.2 mm; 3 inner larger ones 2.2-2.8 by 1.6-2.7 mm, margin petaloid. Petals 5, obovate, 2.8-3.1 by 1-1.5 mm, blade obovate, gradually decur-rent into the 0.8-1.3 mm high claw, margin pilose, outside and inside (sub)glabrous, apex obtuse; scales 1.2-1.8 mm long, free; crest a pilose flat part of the bifid scale apex to clavate and subglabrous. Disc interrupted. Stamens 8; filaments 1.7-4 mm long, pilose, especially basally; anthers 0.4-0.6 mm long, glabrous. Pistil: ovary 0.4-2 mm long, subhirsute; style and stigma 0.3-1.2 mm long. Fruits with 1 or 2 well developed lobes, 1-1.1 by 1.2-1.4 cm, smooth, glabrous, red when fresh, blackish when dry; stipe c. 2 mm high, slender; margin blunt; lobes c. 7.5 by 7 mm. Seeds obovoid, c. 7.2 by 5.8 mm; hilum c. 2 mm long.
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