Tree to 35 m high. Trichomes simple. Leaves trifoliolate (occasional leaves simple); petiole 5–11 cm long; terminal leaflet with petiolule 2–10 mm long; terminal lamina elliptic, 10–17.5 cm long, 4–8 cm wide, acute to attenuate at base, acuminate at apex. Inflorescences axillary, 8–9.5 cm long. Flowers bisexual. Sepals basally connate, suborbicular, 0.7–1 mm long. Petals 4–5 mm long, greenish or cream, abaxially glabrous, adaxially villous in proximal ⅓–½ and plane or longitudinally 1-ridged, deciduous in fruit. Stamens 4; filaments glabrous; anthers 2.2–2.3 mm long. Disc glabrous. Gynoecium sub-apocarpous, 4.5–5.5 mm long, glabrous; ovules 2 per locule; style 3.5–4 mm long; stigma punctiform, 0.2–0.3 mm wide. Fruit of 1–4 follicles c. 6 mm long, not beaked; exocarp subfleshy; endocarp pubescent, adnate. Seed attachment Type B; seeds ellipsoid, c. 4 mm long; raphe of seeds ± straight or gently curved.
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