Tree(let), 5-20 m high; dbh up to 15 cm; outer bark smooth, greyish green to dark grey, inner bark straw coloured; wood straw coloured. Branchlets sericeous when young; flowering twigs 3-7 mm thick. Leaves 1-3-jugate; rachis 2-15.8 cm long, terete, glabrous, petiole 1.4-6.9 cm long. Leaflets subsessile, subopposite to alternate, elliptic, 6.3-17 by 1.9-6.5 cm, index 2.3-3.7, slightly asymmetrical, acroscopic side broader, (sub)coriaceous, usually punctate; base attenuate; margin entire, flat; apex acuminate to caudate, mucronulate; upper surface glabrous; lower surface duller, smooth, no papillae, glabrous except for a few hairs on venation (to sparsely sericeous), domatia absent; venation on upper side flat, raised below; nerves 0.3-2.9 cm apart, marginally looped and joined, less distinctly so in lower part of leaflets; veins laxly reticulate, rather indistinct. Inflorescences axillary to ramiflorous, branching basally and along the flatter ed to terete, subsericeous, 2.2-8.5 cm long axis; first order branches up to 2.3 cm long; cymules cireinnate, 2-4-flowered; bracts and bracteoles tri-angular, outside sericeous, inside glabrous; bracts 0.5—1 mm long; bracteoles 0.6-0.7 mm long; pedicels 2.8-6.2 mm long, sericeous except for the glabrous articulate part. Flowers c. 4 mm in diam. Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, with glands, out-side and inside glabrous, light green; 2 outer smaller ones 1.2-2 by 1.5-2 mm; 3 larger inner ones 2-2.8 by 1.6-2.9 mm, margin petaloid. Petals 5, obo-vate, 2-3.2 by 1-1.5 mm, white; claw c. 0.8 mm high; margin pilose, outside and inside subpilose, apex rounded, somewhat fimbriate; scales 1.2-1.5 mm long, resembling folded margins, without basal auricles, without a distinct membranous margin; crest absent (to some scales with a bifid apex); petal between two adjacent larger sepals not reduced in size. Disc (nearly) uninterrupted, ochre-green. Stamens 8; filaments 2-3 mm long, pilose, especially basally, white; anthers 0.4-0.6 mm long, glabrous, light pink. Pistil green; ovary 0.4-1.5 mm long, subhirsute; style and stigma 0.2-1.5 mm long. fruits with 1-3 well developed lobes, 1.5-2.2 by 2-2.7 cm, completely dehiscent, smooth to slight-ly rugose, black when dry; stipe 2-3.3 mm high, slender; margin blunt; wall less than 1 mm thick; lobes 13-18 by 8.5-12 mm; septa complete. Seeds rot full-grown.
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