Tree to 21 m high. Trichomes simple, fasciculate, and stellate. Leaves trifoliolate (occasional leaves simple); petiole 3.5–14 cm long; terminal leaflet sessile or with petiolule to 3 mm long; terminal lamina elliptic to obovate, or narrowly so, 11–27 cm long, 5–12.5 cm wide, narrowly obtuse to cuneate at base, acuminate at apex. Inflorescences axillary, 5–14 cm long. Flowers male or female (rarely occasional flowers bisexual); plants dioecious or rarely andromonoecious. Sepals basally connate, ovate-triangular or triangular, 0.5–0.7 mm long. Petals 1.3–2 mm long, green to yellow or cream, abaxially glabrous to pubescent, adaxially glabrous and plane or longitudinally 1-ridged, deciduous or mostly so in fruit. Stamens 4; filaments glabrous; anthers in bisexual and male flowers 0.6–0.8 mm long (0.3–0.5 mm long in female flowers). Disc short-velutinous at least on top. Gynoecium in female and bisexual flowers subapocarpous, 1–1.5 mm long (c. 0.5 mm long in male flowers); ovary pubescent or sparsely so; ovules 2 per locule; style 0.5–1 mm long, sparsely pubescent; stigma peltate and 4-lobed or 4-branched, 0.5–0.6 mm wide. Fruit of 1–4 follicles 3–4 (–4.5) mm long, not beaked; exocarp subwoody; endocarp glabrous, adnate. Seed attachment Type A; seeds subglobose to ellipsoid, 2.5–3.5 (–4) mm long; raphe of seeds ± straight or gently curved.
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