Shrub or tree, up to 18 m high, dbh up to 20 cm. Glabrous but for shortly dark-to orange-brown velvety buds and inflorescences. Twigs 3-14 mm thick. Leaves 2-4-jugate; petiole 4-15 cm long; petiolules 5-10 mm long. Leaflets ± elliptic, 12.5-32 by 4-14 cm, index 2-4, thin-to stiff-pergamen-taceous, chartaceous, or coriaceous; base symmetrical (to oblique), acute (to rounded lower), usually slightly decurrent; apex rounded to gradually to abruptly acuminate, acumen short (to long), rounded to acute; midrib usually slightly raised above; nerves 1-5 cm apart, above slightly to hardly raised; intersecondary nerves absent (to well developed). Inflorescences axillary, rami-, and cauliflorous, in dense groups, 2-2.5 cm long, axes racemoid, few-flowered; pedicels in fruit c. 1 cm long. Sepals: outer roundish, c. 6 by 5 mm, inner broad-elliptic, c. 7 by 5 mm; persistent in fruit. Petals oblanceolate, c. 15 by 4 mm, white, cream, or very pale mauve, glabrous. Disc velvety. Stamens 8, white; filaments up to 9 mm long; anthers c. 2.5 mm long. Pistil 2-locular; style c. 4.5 mm long; ovules 2 per locule (to 1 in one of the locules). Fruits broad-cordate, c. 18 by 22-25 mm, widest at or above the middle, orange to red; base ± truncate to broadly rounded, stipe c. 2 mm long; wall leathery, outside densely short-velvety, ± glabrescent, inside very sparsely hairy to glabrous. Seeds usually 1 per locule, arillode bright red.
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