Tree, up to 17.5 m high, dbh up to 50 cm. Twigs 4-6 mm or more in diam., glabrous. Leaves 2-4-jugate; petiole 3.5-12 cm long, 1.5-2.5 mm thick, semiterete to terete; axes glabrous; petiolules 6-13 mm long, above grooved, with or without a median rib. Leaflets ± elliptic, 8-21 by 4-7 cm, index 2-3, coriaceous, glabrous or exceptionally sericeous beneath, usually with pocket-like doma-tia; base rounded or sometimes obtuse, slightly attenuate; sides curved; apex obtuse to acute, sometimes shortly acuminate; midrib above a fine raised line, nerves 0.75-2 cm apart, above slightly grooved, intercalated veins few, veins and veinlets not much different, ± densely reticulate, equally prominulous at both sides. Inflorescences terminal. Sepals free, 2-3 mm long. Petals 4 or 5, 0.6-1.8 by c. 1 mm, both sides at least in the lower half densely woolly. Disc glabrous. Stamens (6-)8. Ovary 2-celled. Fruits ellipsoid, bulging to one side, c. 2.5 by 2 cm, densely set with broad-based, curved, filamentous appendages c. 7 mm long, sparsely puberulous; wall coriaceous, thin.
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A tree. The trunk is 10 cm across. The fruit are blue-grey.
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