Shrub or tree to 20 m high. Leaves with 1-4 pairs of petiolulate leaflets, rarely simple on the same plant, the rachis 2-20 cm long; lamina of leaflets variable in shape (ovate, elliptic, oblong, lanceolate, obovate), apically acute or acuminate, less frequently obtuse or rounded at the apex, basally cuneate to rounded, usually asymmetric at the base, membranous or coriaceous, entire, 4-15 cm long, 1.5-7 cm broad, glabrous or else pubescent along the main nerves below (when pubescent beneath often barbate in the axils of the secondary veins), the secondaries often ? equally dichotomizing toward the margin, the reticulation usually prominent on both surfaces. Panicles terminal and axillary (from the upper nodes), 6-32 cm long, many-flowered. Flowers a, the pedicels 1-3 mm long; calyx cupular, 1-2 mm long, persistent, the 5 shallow lobes broadly deltoid; petals 5, white or yellow, erect or ascending, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or subacuminate, 2-4 mm long; stamens 10, shorter than the petals; disc rather broad, 10-crenulate; ovary ovoid, 1-1.5 mm long, the style short, fleshy, glabrous, the stigmatic region minutely papillose, the ovule strongly compressed. Drupes obliquely ellipsoid or ovoid, 5-13 mm long.
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