Small tree, 2-2.5 m high. Branchlets sericeous when young; flowering twigs 2.5-3 mm thick. Leaves 4-9-jugate; rachis 1.5-12.2 cm long, slightly winged, wing up to at most 0.5 mm broad, sub-sericeous, petiole 1.3-2.4 cm long. Leaflets sub-sessile, opposite to alternate, elliptic, 1.8-6.5 by 0.6-2 cm, index 2.2-3.3, asymmetrical, acroscop-ic side broader, subcoriaceous, punctate; base attenuate to cuneate; margin entire except for some subapical teeth, flat to slightly revolute; apex acuminate, mucronulate; upper surface glabrous except for the basally puberulous midrib; lower surface duller, smooth, no papillae, glabrous to slightly sericeous, domatia many pockets in axils of nerves; venation on upper side slightly sunken to flat, raised below; nerves 0.2-1.2 cm apart, marginally looped and joined; veins laxly to densely reticulate, rather distinct. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched to branching basally and along the terete, pilose, 1.9-5.4 cm long axis; first order branches up to 3.4 cm long; cymules cincinnate, c. 4-flowered; bracts and bracteoles triangular, outside sericeous, inside glabrous; bracts 0.3-0.6 mm long; bracteoles 0.3-0.4 mm long; pedicels 0.8-3 mm long, sericeous; less so in the articulate part. Flowers in bud. Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, with glands, outside and inside glabrous; 2 outer smaller ones 1.1-1.5 by 0.7-1.1 mm; 3 inner larger ones 1.4-1.8 by 1.3-1.5 mm, margin petaloid. Petals 5, immature, 0.2-1.1 by 0.1-0.2 mm, no distinct claw yet, margin pilose, outside and inside glabrous, white; scales slightly developed, free; crest (still?) absent. Disc uninterrupted. Stamens 8; filaments 1.7-2.2 mm long, pilose in lower half; anthers c. 0.3 mm long, glabrous. Pistil: ovary c. 0.2 mm long, subhirsute; style and stigma c. 0.1 mm long. Fruits with 1 or 2 well developed lobes, 0.7-0.8 by 0.6-0.9 cm, smooth to slightly rugose, glabrous, blackish when dry; stipe 2-2.2 mm high, slender; margin blunt; lobes 4-6 by 3.8-4.3 mm; septa complete. Seeds immature.
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