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Leaves (3)5–9(1 l)-foliolate; petiole and rhachis 4–25(43) cm. long, subterete, ± canaliculate above, glabrous or very sparsely stellate-hairy; leaflets subconcolorous or, when dried, almost black above and brown beneath, 4·14(18) × 1·8–6·7(8·2) cm., lanceolate-elliptic or ovate to elliptic or oblong, membranous to papyraceous, the young ones with a narrow acumen, resinous and covered by minute pinkish or whitish glandular hairs mixed or not with stellate ones, when adult glabrous on the lamina except for tufts of simple hairs in the nerve-axils, attenuate to the apex or ± abruptly acuminate, the acumen 0·5–2 cm. long and somewhat broad and blunt; terminal leaflet symmetric, with petiolule 2–4 cm. long, the lateral ones unequally rounded or sub-cuneate at the base and with petiolule 0·1–0·6 cm. long; midrib and lateral nerves slender, not or slightly raised on both surfaces, reticulation visible below in the oldest leaves.
A shrub or tree. It grows 15 m tall. The trunk is erect. The bark is grey. The leaves have 5-9 leaflets. The leaflets are 5 cm long by 2-7 cm wide. They can be larger. They are narrowly oval and thin and papery. The flowers are in a spike like group. They appear before the leaves. They are crowded at the tips of the small branches. They are pink. The fruit is fleshy and 7-9 mm long by 6-7 mm wide. It is irregularly oval.
A shrub or tree up to 15 m. tall; trunk erect, covered by greyish bark; old branches rugose and glabrous; branchlets brownish-grey to almost black, smooth or striate, glabrous or with a few stellate hairs.
Inflorescences spike-like, arising before the leaves, crowded at the apices of the branchlets; axis 2·5–10 cm. long, pinkish-salmon-stellate-tomentose; pedicels 0·2–2·5 mm. long.
Calyx-segments c. 1 mm. long, ovate, entire, obtuse, with few stellate hairs or glabrous.
Petals c. 3 × 1·5 mm., oblong-ovate, unguiculate.
Drupe 7–9(12) × 6–7 mm., irregularly ovoid.
