Gnarled shrub branching close to ground or small crooked tree up to 3 m high. Bark dark and rough; branches blackish, rough, prominently striate, branchlets glabrous, chestnut brown. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate; petiole dull yellow, semiterete, deeply canaliculate above, (11-)23(-30) mm long; leaflets sessile, coriaceous, glutinous, concolorous, dark green above slightly paler below, hypostomatous; lamina elliptic, obovate to widely obovate, base cuneate, apex retuse, rounded, obtuse to rarely acute, mucronulate; margin entire, slightly revolute; venation semi-craspedodromous, midrib prominent below, impressed above, secondaries slightly prominent above and below, tertiaries prominently reticulate above, impressed below; terminal leaflets (21-)37(-70) x (11-)21(-35) mm, lateral leaflets (12-)27(-39) x (10-)17(-25) mm. Panicles relatively short, up to 60 mm long, axillary within the dense foliage, terminal partially exserted. Flowers not seen, vide Engler (1883) relatively large, calyx lobes 1 mm long, corolla lobes 2 mm long. Drupe oblate, obloid, glabrous, shiny, light to dark brown, 4.3 x 3.0 to 8.0 x 7.5 mm. Flowers and fruit following in succession from January to July.
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Gnarled shrub or small crooked tree, 1.5-3.0 m high; bark rough, dark, branchlets chestnut-brown, blackish, striate. Leaves with petioles dull yellowish, trifoliolate; leaflets sessile, coriaceous, glutinous, dark green above, paler below, elliptic to obovate, margins entire, slightly revolute. Inflorescence panicles, ± 60 mm long, axillary within dense foliage, terminal panicle partially exserted. Flowers small, yellowish; calyx lobes 1 mm long; corolla lobes 2 mm long. Fruit a drupe, oblate, obloid, glabrous, shiny, light to dark brown.
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