Shrub or treelet, 1.8-2.4 m high. Twigs and leaf axes thin-puberulous, glabrescent, inflorescences and infructescences short-velvety. Twigs 3-5 mm thick. Leaves 1-5-jugate; petiole 4-10 cm long; petiolules 3-9 mm long. Leaflets elliptic, 5.5-23 by 2.5-9.5 cm, index 1.75-3, pergamentaceous; base symmetrical (or oblique), acute to rounded, only slightly decurrent; apex acuminate, acumen short to long, slender to broad, rounded; glabrous to sparsely hairy on midrib (and nerves); midrib above slightly raised to flat; nerves 1.25-3 cm apart, slightly raised above; intersecondary nerves frequent, variably developed. Inflorescences restricted to the uppermost leaf axil (to the upper two axils), solitary or few together, 4.5-12 cm long, hardly to repeatedly branched from the base onwards; pedicels in fruit c. 3 mm long. Sepals elliptic to broad-ovate, 3.5-5 by 2-3 mm, persistent under the fruit. Petals glabrous (known in bud only). Disc uninterrupted, velvety. Stamens 5; anthers c. 1.2 mm long. Pistil 2-or 3-locular; style 2.5-3 mm long; ovules 1 per locule. Fruits with widely spreading ellipsoid lobes, c. 1.5 by 1.25 cm, the central axis 6-7 mm high; stipe c. 3 mm high; wall thin-woody, outside pustular or coarsely veined, orange, glabrous, inside glabrous.
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