Tree or shrub, 4-6 m high, outer bark grey to dark grey to light brown, middle bark light green, inner bark cream, wood of medium hardness, straw-coloured. Branchlets rough, greenish black to greyish black to reddish black; flowering twigs 4-7 mm thick. Leaves 1-4-jugate, often with a terminal leaflet; petiole 2.5-6 cm long, terete to angular, usually slightly winged below the lowermost pair of leaflets, ribbed, glabrous; rachis 2.5-10.5 cm long, angular, slightly winged below the jugae, ribbed, glabrous; petiolules 6-11 mm long, grooved, glabrous; pulvinus 2-5 mm long, grooved, glabrous. Leaflets opposite to subopposite, ovate to elliptic, rarely obovate, 7-16 by 3-6 cm, index 2.6-3.1, (thick) pergamentaceous, both sides glabrous; base sometimes very slightly oblique, usually abruptly narrowing, attenuate; margin (slightly) recurved; apex obtuse to slightly emarginate; midrib flattened to slightly sunken, angular, lateral nerves 0.7-2.5 apart, basally indistinctly, apically distinctly looped, intercalated veins curved towards the base, veins laxly reticulate, on upper surface slightly raised. Inflorescences axillary or subterminal, paniculate, branching at the base, to 4 cm long, puber-ulous; bracts and bracteoles to 1 mm long; pedicels 1.5-2 mm long. Flowers not observed. Fruits 1.5-1.8 by 2-2.5 cm, outside smooth to slightly rugose, laxly strigose, laxly papillose, inside densely papillose; stipe absent; lobes 3, well developed, 0.9-1.4 by 1.1-1.3 cm; style not observed. Seeds immature or only partly present, ellipsoid; hilum 0.5 mm diam.; pseudohilum 5 mm diam.
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