(Shrub to) tree, 2-30 m high, 10-85 cm dbh; outer bark whitish to greyish brown, smooth to somewhat rough with numerous pustular lenticels, thin, hard, inner bark cream to orange to straw brown; wood white to brown, heartwood reddish brown. Flowering branchlets 1.5-2.5(-ll) mm in diam. Leaves (2-)3-4(-5)-jugate; rachis 1.7-14 cm long, flat above, especially upper side sericeous. Leaflets 2-21 by 1-7 cm; apex acuminate to cus-pidate, very apex emarginate to rounded. Inflorescences axillary to pseudoterminal, usually not branching, rachis up to 8 cm long. Bracts and bracteoles triangular; bracts 1.1-1.6 mm long; bracteoles 0.3-1 mm long. Pedicels puberulous, upper part 1.8 (flower)-lO (fruit) mm long. Flowers 3.3-6.3 mm in diam. Sepals 5; lobes 1.2-3.3 by 0.7-2.3 mm, margin pilose. Petals 5; blade 0.5-2 by 0.8-2 mm, margin pilose, outside subglabrous; scale sometimes divided into two, 0.5-1.5 by 0.8-2.2 mm; crest (absent to) well developed central ribs to 2 small flat appendages. Disc uninterrupted, c. 0.5 mm high, as high as broad. Stamens (7-)8(-10); filaments in male flowers 1-3.3 mm long, in female flowers 0.8-1.3 mm long; anthers 0.8-1.2 by 0.6-1 mm. Pistil: ovary in male flowers 0.3-0.4 mm high, up to 2.5 mm high in female flowers, 2-(or occasionally 3-)locular, subglabrous; style and stigma in male flowers c. 0.1 mm high, in female flowers up to 1.2 mm high. Fruits 1.6-2.2 by 1-1.6 cm, inside densely hirsute with hairs up to 1.5 mm long; stipe absent to 2.5 mm high. Seeds 1.2-1.7 by 0.7-1.2 cm, base straight; sarcotesta covering seed almost completely except for small dorsal triangular spot; hilum 1.2-4 mm long.
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