Treelets up to 3 m, stem and petiole base often ribbed and fluted. Leaves clustered at the stem apex, 1-to 3-pinnate. Petiole 6-35 cm; stipule half elliptic, c. 2-4 by 2 cm, glabrous, scar narrowly triangular, 2-3½ cm long; rachis 5-40 cm. Leaflets elliptic to ellipticlanceolate or ovate to ovate-lanceolate, (8-) 14-28 (-38) by (4-)5-8 (-12) cm, glabrous, chartaceous to coriaceous; pearl glands globose, infrequent; margin shallowly sinuate; apex acuminate; base rounded to cuneate, sometimes attenuate; nerves 6-8 on each side; petiolules 3-15 mm. Inflorescences to 5 cm long, condensed, glabrous or pubescent; bracts deltoid to triangular, up to 3 by 2 mm; peduncle to 2 cm long, main branches usually 3, short, ultimate branches reduced, often few-flowered. Flowers 5-merous, white. Calyx 3 by 4 mm, glabrous to pubescent; lobes 1 by 2 mm. Corolla tube + staminodial lobes 5 mm; corolla lobes 4 by 2 mm. Staminodial tube 3-4 mm long; upper free part 2-3 mm, lobes shallowly retuse, sinuses shallow, c. 0.3 mm; upper part c. 1 mm. Filaments 1½ mm, anthers 3 mm. Ovary 6-celled, style 3 mm. Fruit c. 25 mm ø, orange-brown; seeds usually 6, c. 10 by 7 mm, rumination outline complexly branched, endosperm semi-complex with an extra outgrowth on the lateral face.
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