Shrub, 1-3 m high. Branchlets hirsute when young flowering twigs 1.5-2.5 mm thick. Leaves (l-)2-7-jugate; petiolule a pulvinus only. Leaflets ovate, 0.9-4.2 by 0.3-1.8 cm, (slightly) asymmetrical, coriaceous, not punctate; base sometimes asymmetrical; margin flat; apex acuminate, sometimes asymmetrical, mucronulate; upper surface hirsute, glabrescent; lower surface densely hirsute; domatia absent; nerves marginally looped; veins very distinct. Inflorescences axillary (to pseudo-terminal), slender, hirsute, up to 6.2 cm long, not branching or with a few up to 5 cm long branches; cymules cincinnate, 2-or 3-flowered; bracts and bracteoles triangular, sericeous; bracts up to 2 mm long; Bracteoles up to 1.1 mm long. Flowers less than 2 mm in diam., young? Sepals deltate, 0.8-1.4 by 3.6-1.1 mm, hirsute, light green to yellowish brown. Petals orbicular, white (to yellow). Male flower: petals 1.3-1.8 by 1.1-1.6 mm, claw c. 0.3 mm, scale c. 0.8 mm high with a small glabrous crest; stamens: filaments c. 2.7 mm long, anthers 0.4-0.6 mm long, yellow to orange to brownish pink; pistil: ovary c. 0.6 mm high, style and stigma 0.1-0.3 mm long. Female flowers: petals c. 1 by 1 mm, claw c. 0.2 mm, scales c. 0.4 mm high, without crest; stamens: filaments c. 0.7 mm long, anthers 0.4-0.6 mm long; pistil: c. 1.2 mm high, brownish green; style and stigma 0.1-0.3 mm long. Fruits-1.4 by 0.9-1.2 cm, smooth, glabrous, red to purplish, stipe absent, lobes with less than 0.5 mm wide wings; tuft of hairs below placenta. Arillode with a straight appendage. Seeds obovoid, c. 9 by 6 mm.
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