(Shrub to) tree, up to 20 m high, dbh up to 20 cm. Twigs, leaf axes, inflorescences, and infructescences rather densely to sparsely puberulous, glabrescent to glabrous. Twigs 6-15 mm thick. Leaves 3-5-jugate; petiole 8-17 cm long; petiolules 4-12 mm long. Leaflets (ovate to) elliptic (to obo-vate), 2.5-33.5 by 5-13 cm, index 1.6-3, pergamentaceous to chartaceous; base symmetrical, acute, and gradually long-decurrent (especially upper leaflets) to oblique, rounded, and abruptly shortly attenuate (lower ones); apex tapering to abruptly acuminate, acumen straight to slightly falcate, short to long, with rounded tip; on midrib and often on nerves densely to sparsely puberulous, especially beneath glabrescent; midrib above slightly raised; nerves 1.5-5.5 cm apart, slightly raised above; intersecondary nerves few to many, usually short and inconspicuous. Inflorescences axillary, rami-, and cauliflorous, in one or two groups of up to 3.5 cm long rachises, these not or hardly branched; pedicels in fruit 6-13 mm long. Sepals oblong-obovate to elliptic, 5-7 by 2.5-4.5 mm, outer 2 sometimes slightly smaller, persistent. Petals oblong, c. 7 by 3 mm or more, white, glabrous. Disc short-velvety. Stamens 5; filaments c. 4 mm long or more; anthers c. 3 mm long. Pistil: 2-locular; ovules 1 per locule. Fruits transversely broad-ellipsoid to subglobular (or subtrapezoid), 1.5-2.5 by 1.8-3.2 cm, base obtuse to rounded to sometimes nearly truncate; stipe up to 3.5 mm long; apex rounded to emarginate; wall up to 1 mm thick, woody, outside granulate with scattered prominent pustules and prominulous irregular ridges, red, glabrous or sparsely puberulous, inside glabrous to densely, shortly tufted-hairy. Seeds black or dark brown with an orange to red arillode.
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