Shrub or tree, up to 5(-20?) m high; puberulous, early glabrescent. Twigs 3-8 mm in diam. Leaves 3-or 4-jugate; petiole 5-11 (-17) cm long; petiolules 4—11(—15) mm long. Leaflets ovate to elliptic, 12-27 by 4.5-11 cm, index 1.8-3.2, pergamentaceous to subcoriaceous; base rounded (to obtuse or acute); domatia absent or inconspicuously in axils of nerves below; midrib above an angular line, nearly always visible; nerves 12-24 per side, moderately curved; veins very regularly reticulate, prominent on both surfaces. Inflorescences ramiflorous, on 7-13 mm thick branches (to rarely axillary); axes up to 25 cm long, sparsely to rather strongly branched; bracts triangular, up to 1 mm high. Calyx connate for ⅓; lobes triangular, usually slightly acuminate, up to 1.2 by 0.5 mm, (unequal), subcoriaceous, outside sparsely pubescent, inside puberulous near the base, often as a row of short hairs. Petals (3-)5(-6), ± elliptic, up to 0.5 mm long, not clawed, glabrous or with a few hairs near the base, not auriculate. Disc annular or slightly cup-shaped, often irregularly, deeply lobed to interrupted, 0.75-1 mm in diam., glabrous or locally sparsely puberulous. Stamens 8, up to 2 mm long; filaments pubescent; anthers smooth or locally inconspicuously papillate, glabrous. Pistil not or shortly stipitate, pubescent. Fruits globose, up to 1 cm in diam., not stipitate or stipe c. 1 mm long in unripe fruits, glabrous, with many light brown dots and faint remnants of a waxy covering, very shortly apiculate, thin-walled; endocarp incompletely sclerenchymatic, consisting of a c. 2 mm wide tapering plate at either side of the suture, glabrous; septa glabrous. Seeds up to 9 mm long, globose to ellipsoid, arillode without appendix; cotyledons subcollateral, lower cotyledon folded, usually smaller than the upper one.
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