Shrub, less than 1 m high, to treelet up to 3 m high. Young parts, inflorescences, and infructes-cences densely, appressedly, shortly, brown hairy. Twigs 4-6 mm thick. Leaves 3-or 4-jugate; petiole 8-11 cm long, winged except for the basal ¼-½, wings 2-3.5 mm wide; rachis winged, wings 4.5-6 mm wide, widest beneath leaflet; petiolules 0-3 mm long; axes hairy. Leaflets ovate to elliptic, 7.5-25 by 2.5-10 cm, index 2-3.75, herbaceous; base symmetrical, narrowly rounded to subcordate; apex gradually to rather abruptly acuminate, acumen short to rather long, straight, with rounded tip; midrib and nerves very sparsely to densely minutely hairy, below also with glandular hairs; midrib above slightly raised; nerves 1.5-2.5 cm apart, slightly raised above; intersecondary nerves few, faint. Inflorescences axillary, simple or slightly branched, up to 3.5 cm long, few-flowered; pedicels in fruit 3-4 mm long. Female flowers unknown. Sepals elliptic or (outer) ovate, 4.5-5.5 by 2.5-3 mm, in fruit semipersistent. Petals oblanceolate, c. 9 by 2 mm, white, glabrous. Disc annular, puberulous. Stamens 5 or 6; filaments c. 8 mm long; anthers 2.3-2.5 mm long. Pistil 2-locular; style c. 3.5 mm long; ovules 1 per locule. Fruits broad-ellipsoid to subglobular, 14-22 by 18-20 mm, red, base obtuse to truncate, short-stipitate, apex (sub)emarginate; wall thin coriaceous, outside prominently coarsely reticulate and pustulate, pubescent, inside glabrous. Seeds black with a yellow to orange arillode.
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