Tree, 3-15 m high, dbh 3-12 cm; outer bark brown to light cream-grey, smooth, inner bark orange; wood white to light straw, hard. Branchlets crispy hirsute especially when young; flowering twigs 2-4 mm thick. Leaves l-3(-4)-jugate; petiolule up to 9 mm long. Leaflets ovate to elliptic, 3.7-17.2 by 1.5-5.5 cm, subsymmetrical to asymmetrical, coriaceous, usually not punctate; base slightly asymmetrical; margin flat to slightly recurved; apex acuminate to cuspidate (to caudate), not mucronulate; upper surface mainly crispy hirsute on midrib, often with wax; lower surface rufous-hirsute; domatia present as shallow pockets; nerves usually marginally looped; veins distinct. Inflorescences in upper leaf axils and pseudoterminal, rather slender, hirsute, up to 16.2 cm long, sometimes with a few up to 2.8 cm long branches; cymules cincinnate, 1-3-flowered; bracts and bracteoles triangular, sericeous; bracts up to 2.7 mm long; bracteoles up to 1.1 mm long. Flowers 2.1-A mm in diam.; buds brown pilose. Sepals del-tate, 1.5-3 by 1-1.8 mm, sericeous, green. Petals obovate, white, blade rhombic, 1.3-2.5 by 1-2 mm, claw 0.5-1.3 mm high, rather slender, margin au-riculate between claw and blade, apex rounded, outside and inside basally sericeous; scales 0.5-1.2 mm long, yellow; crest absent or very small and then clavate and usually glabrous. Stamens: female filaments 1.8-2.9 mm long, white; anthers 0.6-1 by 0.4-0.7 mm, red. Pistil: female ovary 0.8-1 mm high, light green, style and stigma 0.2-0.6 mm long. Fruits seen immature, red, winged, gla-brescent; stipe low; axis below placenta with few hairs. Arillode with straight appendage. Seeds seen immature, obovoid.
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