Erect bushy tree, up to 9 m high. Young parts, leaf axes, inflorescences, and infructescences densely, appressedly, minutely hairy. Twigs 3.5-7 mm thick. Leaves 2-or 3(-5)-jugate; petiole 2.5-8 cm long; petiolules 2-5(-7) mm long. Leaflets elliptic to obovate, 4.5-15 by 2.5-8 cm, index 1.5-3;, chartaceous; base symmetrical to slightly ob-lique, rounded to acute and usually (abruptly) short-decurrent; apex rounded to obtuse(to slightly emar-ginate); glabrous or very sparsely hairy on the mid-r ib below; midrib above slightly sunken to slightly raised; nerves 0.9-2(-2.6) cm apart, about equally prominent on both surfaces; intersecondary nerves rather many, usually rather feeble. Inflorescences axillary, pseudoterminal, or terminal, 8.5-30 cm long, solitary and simple or with 2 equally strong basal branches (to with some more higher up); pedicels in flower and fruit 2-4 mm long. Sepals obovate to elliptic to orbicular, 4-5.5 by 3-4 mm, persistent. Petals oblong to lanceolate to oblanceolate, 6-7.5 by 2-2.5 mm, creamy green to creamy white, glabrous (or in the same flower some slightly hairy). Disc uninterrupted, short-velvety. Stamens 5(-7). Pistil 2-locular; style 2.5-5 mm long; ovules I per locule (to 2 in one of the locules). Fruits with widely spreading, obovoid to ellipsoid lobes, 5-6 by 27-34 mm; base cordate to obtuse, stipe up to 2 mm long; wall pergamentaceous, outside smooth with faint longitudinal nerves, orange to red, sparsely short-hairy, inside very sparsely short-hairy. Seeds black with a red arillode.
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