Shrub, or tree to 20 m high. Trichomes simple. Leaves trifoliolate; petiole 2–7.5 cm long; terminal leaflet with petiolule 2–10 mm long; terminal lamina elliptic (in occasional leaves elliptic-obovate or obovate), 6–10 cm long, 2.5–4 cm wide, attenuate at base, acuminate at apex. Inflorescences axillary, 3–6 (–14) cm long. Flowers bisexual. Sepals basally connate, suborbicular or ovate, c. 0.8 mm long. Petals c. 2 mm long, greenish white, glabrous, adaxially plane or longitudinally 1-ridged, deciduous in fruit. Stamens 4; filaments glabrous; anthers c. 1.2 mm long. Disc glabrous. Gynoecium subapocarpous, 2–2.8 mm long; ovary puberulous; ovules 2 per locule; style 1.5–2.5 mm long, glabrous; stigma punctiform or capitellate, 0.15–0.2 mm wide. Fruit of 1–4 follicles 3.5–4 mm long, not beaked; exocarp subfleshy; endocarp adnate, sparsely puberulous. Seed attachment Type B; seeds ovoid, c. 3 mm long; raphe of seeds ± straight or gently curved.
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