Trees ca. 4 m tall; stems minutely and inconspicuously grandular-tomentose when young, soon glabrous, terete, the periderm grayish. Leaves 2-foliolate; petioles terete, ca. 3 cm long, glabrous to sparsely and inconspicuously puberu-lent, often glandular; leaflets ovate to narrowly ovate, bluntly acute to acuminate at the apex, obtuse to rounded at the base, 6-15 cm long, 3-7.5 cm wide, entire, glabrous except sometimes sparsely puberulent and glandular on the midrib be-neath, drying dark brown, the major lateral veins mostly 5 or 6 pairs, turning sharply upward just before merging with the margin; stipules inconspicuous. Inflorescences axillary, branched or unbranched, to ca. 10 cm long, sparsely rufous-tomentose; pedicels puberulent, to 4.5 mm long in fruit, articulate about midway. Flowers not seen. Capsules reddish, ellipsoid to obovoid, 1.5-2 cm long, (2-)3-lobed, sometimes irregularly so, appressed-puberulent outside, glabrous inside except for the dense rufous-villous pubescence near the base of the capsule; seeds ellipsoid, black, shiny, glabrous, ca. 7 mm long.
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