Small tree, up to 15 m. Leaves dispersed along the shoots; petiole slender, to 20 cm, with a small basal sheath, the connate stipules forming a small ligule within the petiole; leaflets 5 or 3, petiolules slender, up to c. 5.5 cm (the lateral shorter); blade elliptic, usually c. 7-15 by 2½-5 cm, gradually tapered to a caudate-falcate acuminate apex, base narrowly cuneate, or rarely obtuse, often oblique, margin entire or sometimes a few very fine serrations, glabrous, membranous. Inflorescence a panicle of umbellules, minutely stellate-pubescent, with a stout rachis to 30 cm, and lateral (secondary) branches which terminate in umbellules; pedicels c. 6-1 mm, only slightly swollen at the articulation. Calyx rim undulate or indistinctly dentate. Petals c. 2 mm long. Ovary narrowly turbinate with distinct longitudinal ribs, c. 2 mm high. Disk fleshy, surmounted by an awl-shaped stylar column. Fruit ovate, 8 by 4 mm, crowned by the persistent stylar column.
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