Shrub or liana, glabrous except the fulvous hairy buds and bracts. Twigs terete, c. 2.5 mm in diam., light grey-brown to ash-grey, smooth or slightly pustular-lenticellate. Leaves 3-4-jugate; petiole terete, 3-5 cm long, slightly swollen at base; rachis terete to angular above; petiolules narrowly grooved above, 2-5 mm long. Leaflets ± opposite, ovate-oblong, 6-10.5 by 2.2-4.2 cm, stiff-chartaceous, greyish green above, the same or dark brown beneath, minutely pellucid-dotted; base broadly cuneate and attenuate to rounded, equal-sided; apex obtuse to tapering acuminate, acumen short, broad, and obtuse; midrib prominulous and acute above, prominent and angular beneath, nerves 0.5-1 cm apart, angle to midrib almost 90°, almost straight, looped and joined at some distance from the margin, equally prominulous on both surfaces, venation finely reticulate, equally prominulous on both surfaces. Inflorescences solitary, simple, 3.5-18 cm long; peduncle short, cymes distant, short-stalked to sessile, 1-5-flowered; pedicels up to 2 mm long, Sepals 5, sparsely ciliolate partly with glandular hairs, further glabrous or outside very sparsely puberulous, outer 2 distinctly smaller, ovate, 1.8 by 1.2 mm, inner broad-elliptic to orbicular, 2.5 by 1.8 mm, thinner towards the crenulate margin. Petals 5, subsessile, oblong-elliptic, up to 3 by 2 mm, fairly densely ciliolate; scale small, biparted, villous. Disc of 5, ± separate, erect, glabrous lobes. Stamens 5, filaments partly hairy; anthers ovate, 1 mm long, glabrous. Ovary 2-celled, glabrous; style short; stigma slightly bilobed. Fruits not observed.
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