Shrub up to about 4.5 m. tall, glabrous but for the margin of the sepals.. Leaves petiolate, usually 3-foliolate; blade lanceolate to broadly elliptic, 3–6 cm. long, 0.8–1.8(–3) cm. wide, apically somewhat acute, the midrib markedly excurrent as a mucro, light green.. Inflorescence an axillary or terminal corymbose raceme; pedicels up to 1.5 cm. long.. Sepals 7–9 mm. long, with a tomentellous margin; receptacle 3.5–4 mm. long.. Petals 2–3 mm. long.. Stamens 12–30; filaments ± 22 mm. long; anthers 2 mm. long.. Ovary ellipsoid-spherical, becoming almost globose.. Fruits globose, ± 2 cm. in diameter when mature, somewhat shiny, verruculose.
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