Tree up to 15 m high, dbh up to 0.75 m; puberulous, early glabrescent. Twigs 4-7 mm in diam., slightly grooved. Leaves 2-4-jugate; petiole 7-20 cm long; petiolules 7-14 mm long. Leaflets ovate to elliptic, 7-28 by 3.4-10 cm, index 2-3.2, perga-mentaceous to subcoriaceous, slightly bullate; base acute to obtuse or rounded; domatia small, in the axils of the nerves (and intersecondary nerves) below; midrib prominent above, angular or locally obtuse, (sub)glabrous, (beneath puberulous); nerves 10-14 per side, moderately curved, prominent on both surfaces; veins prominent above and beneath. Inflorescences ramiflorous, on branches of at least 6-10 mm in diam., (to axillary), probably also cauliflorous; axes up to 5 cm long, branched, ferrugineous puberulous; flowers solitary or rarely in pairs; pedicels up to 5 mm long; bracts lanceolate to ovate, up to 3 mm long. Calyx cup-shaped, 3-5 mm high, connate for ½-¾, membranous, greenish white; lobes triangular, up to 2 by 2 mm, with 3 or 5 nerves, outside sparsely pubescent, inside glabrous or with a few hairs near the base. Petals absent. Disc annular to pentagonal, broad, nearly completely covering the receptacle, surrounding the base of the stamens, confluent with the base of the pistil, 2-3 mm in diam., glabrous or laterally puberulous. Stamens 5-7; filaments up to 11 mm long, filiform, glabrous; anthers smooth (or papillate at the apex), glabrofs. Pistil glabrous or sparsely hairy, distinctly angular in cross section; style with 1-1.5 mm long, recurved, twisted stigmatic lobes. Fruits up to 2.5 cm high, glabrous; stipe 5-14 by c. 1.5 mm; seed-bearing part globose, up to 1 cm in diam., apicu-late for 1-2 mm, inside glabrous; endocarp scler-enchyinatic for ⅔ of the width of a valve. Seeds not known ripe.
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