Trees medium-sized, evergreen. Leaves odd pinnate, axis somewhat pilose abaxially; petiolules ca. 1 cm; leaflets 11-15, abaxially gray or pale green, adaxially dark green and nitid, narrowly ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or oblong-elliptic, (3-)5-15 × 2-3.5 cm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous or crinite at vein axils abaxially, lateral veins (6-)9-13 pairs, slightly ascending, anastomosing 2-5 mm from margin, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin sparsely spinose-serrulate or entire, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate. Panicle terminal or axillary on upper branches, ca. 25 × 20 cm, ferruginous pubescent, soon glabrescent, branched 3(or 4) times, axis triangular, lateral branches flat. Pedicel short. Sepals 5, ovate, ca. 1 mm, outer ones narrower, ciliate. Petals white: 3 outer ones flat-orbicular, ca. 2 × 2.2 mm; 2 inner ones ca. 1/2 as long as filaments, bifid, lobes fringed. Fertile stamens ca. 1.5 mm. Disk shallowly cup-shaped, 5-toothed. Pistil ca. 1.7 mm; ovary pubescent; style slightly longer than ovary. Drupe subglobose, 4-6 mm in diam.; endocarp convex, with scattered netlike strips, midrib slightly prominent. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Aug-Oct.
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A medium sized tree. It grows 10 m high. The leaves have an odd number of leaflets. The leaf stalks are fattened at the base. The leaflets are leathery and vary in size but can be 3-15 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. They are shiny above and pale underneath. There are 11-13 veins on each side of the leaf. The flowers are in groups at the ends of branches. They have rusty soft hairs but these fall off. The fruit is round and 4-5 mm across.
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