Small tree, 7-10 m high, dbh up to 16 cm; outer bark (reddish) brown, rough, inner salmon to brown; wood white, hard. Branchlets hirsute when young; flowering twigs 2-3.5 mm thick. Leaves 2-or 3-jugate; petiolule up to 6 mm long. Leaflets ovate (to elliptic), 3-8 by 1.8-4 cm, somewhat asymmetrical, coriaceous, not punctate; base somewhat asymmetrical; margin flat; apex acuminate, not mucronulate; upper surface pilose on midrib; lower surface hirsute; domatia absent; nerves marginally looped; veins distinct. Inflorescences in upper leaf axils to pseudoterminal, slender, hirsute, up to 8 cm long, not branching or with a few up to 2.4 cm long branches; cymules cincinnate, 1-or 2-flowered; bracts and bracteoles triangular, sericeous; bracts up to 2 mm long; bracteoles up to 1.1 mm long. Flowers c. 3 mm in diam. Sepals ovate, 1.2-1.8 by 0.6-0.8 mm, hirsute. Petals orbicular to elliptic, 1.1-1.4 by 0.8-1 mm, white, claw 0.1-0.2 mm high, margin not auriculate near claw, apex obtuse; scales 0.4-0.7 mm high, without crest. Stamens: filaments 0.7-1 mm long; anthers 0.5-0.7 mm long. Pistil: ovary 0.6-1 mm high; style and stigma 0.1-0.2 mm long. Fruits unknown.
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