Tree, up to 12 m high, dbh up to 40 cm, or shrub. Twigs 1.2 cm in diam., shining olive-brown, slightly pustular lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves imparipin-nate with a reduced terminal leaflet, 4-6-jugate, glabrous; petiole terete, swollen at base, 4-9 cm long; rachis in the lower part terete, central part angular above, upper part flat with lateral ribs to marginate beneath insertion of leaflets; petiolules 1 mm} pseudo-stipules suborbicular, c. 4 by 5 cm, sessile, cordate at base, rounded at apex, palmati-to reti nerved. Leaflets subopposite, oblong, up to 17-19 by 5-7 cm, index c. 3.5, stiff-chartaceous, greyish green above, light-to red-brown beneath, above with scattered gland-warts, beneath densely finely) pitted; base slightly oblique, narrowly rounded; apex obtuse to narrowly rounded; midrib beneath acute, nerves 1.5-3 cm apart, angle to midrib c. 65°, slightly curved, at least the upper ones distiiictly looped and joined near the margin. Inflorescences axillary, 30-35 cm long, rachis sub-glabrous, widely branched; branches long, oblique-erect, densely fulvous-puberulous, some branched again; cymes sessile, few-to 1-flowered; pedicels rather thick, 2 mm long. Sepals 5, outer elliptic, 4.5 by 2.5 mm, inner suborbicular, 3.5 by 3 mm, all with petaloid margin, dark red, outside densely fulvous-puberulous, margin densely ciliolate, inside glabrous. Petals 5, sessile, elliptic, 3 by 2.5 mm, thick-fleshy, outside basally rather densely ap-pressed short fulvous hairy, margin ciliolate; scale a narrow, reflexed, ciliolate strip. Stamens 8; anthers 1.5 mm, glabrous (in female flowers ciliolate along the sides). Ovary 3-celled, ciliate along the sides; pistillode densely hairy. Infructescences and fruits not observed; fruit described as dark purplish.
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