Shrub to tree, 2-17 m high, dbh 6-25 cm. Flowering branchlets 3-5 mm in diam. Leaves 2-4-jugate; rachis 1.6-17.3 cm long, terete, (sub)seri-ceous. Leaflets 2.5-24 by 1.2-10 cm; apex acuminate, very apex (emarginate to) rounded. Inflorescences axillary with a tendency towards ramiflory, branching mainly in axil or along rachis, latter up to 7 cm long. Bracts and bracteoles triangular to long-triangular; bracts 1.1-2 mm long; bracteoles 0.6-1 mm long. Pedicels sericeous, upper part 2-8 mm long. Flowers c. 4 mm in diam. Sepals 5 (or 6); lobes 0.8-2.3 by 0.6-1.5 mm, mainly outside sericeous. Petals 5; blade triangular, 0.4-1 by 1-1.6 mm, completely pilose; scale 0.8-1.7 by 1.2-1.8 mm; crests absent. Disc uninterrupted, c. 0.4 mm high, broader than high. Stamens 8; filaments in male flowers 1.2-3.3 mm long, in female flowers 0.4-1.8 mm; anthers in male flowers 0.6-0,9 by 0.5-0.8 mm, in female flowers 0.4-0.7 by 0.5-0.8 mm. Pistil: ovary in male flowers 0.3-0.4 mm high, in female flowers 1.8-2.5 mm high, 2-locular, hirsute; style and stigma in male flowers 0.05-0.1 mm long, in female flowers 0.9-1.8 mm long. Fruits 1.3-2.5 by 0.8-1.6 cm, inside densely hirsute with hairs c. 0.5 mm long; stipe absent (to 2 mm high). Seeds 6-12 by 5-9.5 mm, base oblique; sarcotesta only around hilum, forming obpyramidal outgrowth below seed; hilum 0.8-1.1 mm long.
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