Treelet, up to 4 m high. All young parts, including twigs, leaf axes, and infructescences, moderately to (latter) densely puberulous, glabrescent. Twigs 6-7 mm thick. Leaves 3-or 4-jugate; petiole 8.5-11.5 cm long; petiolules 5-7 mm long. Leaflets elliptic, 14.5-24.5 by 7.5-9 cm, index 1.9-2.8, chartaceous; base symmetrical or in upper leaflets oblique, acute and gradually, to rounded and abruptly (lowermost leaflets) decurrent; apex ± abruptly acuminate, acumen rather long, straight (to falcate), the tip rounded; midrib and nerves above fairly densely, beneath sparsely puberulous; midrib and nerves above slightly raised; nerves 2.2-3.5 cm apart; intersecondary nerves few, short. Inflorescences axillary and solitary or ramiflorous and in clusters of c. 3, not to sparsely branched, 6-15 cm long; pedicels in flower and fruit 4-9 mm long. Sepals ovate to elliptic, 4.5-5 by 3-4 mm, persistent. Petals oblanceolate, c. 10 by 3.2 mm, greenish white, glabrous. Disc uninterrupted, short-velvety. Stamens 5; filaments c. 2.5 mm long; anthers 3.5-4 mm long. Pistil 2-locular; ovules 1 per locule. Fruits broad-ellipsoid, 24-26 by 22-25 mm, rounded at base and apex, stipe c. 0.5 mm long; wall thin, woody, outside granulate and irregularly pustulate, red, very sparsely minutely hairy, inside glabrous. Seeds with a yellow arillode.
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