Tree to 18 m high. Trichomes simple. Leaves trifoliolate; petiole 2–6 cm long; terminal leaflet with petiolule 1–9 mm long; terminal lamina elliptic or narrowly so, 3.7–9 cm long, 1.2–4 cm wide, acute to attenuate at base, acuminate at apex. Inflorescences axillary, 2.5–6 cm long. Flowers bisexual. Sepals basally connate, suborbicular, 0.7–1 mm long. Petals 3–3.5 mm long, white, abaxially glabrous, adaxially villous in c. proximal ½ and plane or longitudinally 1-ridged, deciduous in fruit. Stamens 4; filaments glabrous or nearly so; anthers 1.5–2.3 mm long. Disc with a few tufts of trichomes on top or glabrous. Gynoecium subapocarpous, 3–4.5 mm long, glabrous; ovules 2 per locule; style 2–3.5 mm long; stigma punctiform, 0.2–0.3 mm wide. Fruit of 1–4 follicles c. 5 mm long, not beaked; exocarp subfleshy; endocarp sparsely pubescent or puberulous, adnate. Seed attachment Type B; seeds ovoid, c. 3.5 mm long; raphe of seeds ± straight or gently curved.
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