Tree to 10 m tall. New growth rusty-tomentose, soon glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 4-7 mm long; lamina concolorous, dull, coriaceous; juvenile leaves elliptic or ovate in outline, simply lobed to deeply bipinnately lobed; lobes linear; adult leaves simple, oblanceolate, narrowly oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, straight or falcate, 2.5-11 cm long, 0.4-1.8 cm wide, attenuate at base, with margins not undulate, acute or obtuse at apex, mucronate; venation faint with 3-5 longitudinal veins. Conflorescence axillary or ramiflorous, arising singly or several together, ferruginous-tomentose, glabrescent; peduncles 3-19 mm long; umbels of 14-21 flowers. Flowers 4-5 mm long, yellow, appearing white when open, strongly perfumed, glabrous; pedicels 4-5 mm long. Hypogynous gland well-developed, horse-shoe shaped, glistening. Follicles linear, 4-6 cm long, woody. Seeds ±oblong, c. 10-12 mm long (including wing), 3-5 mm wide; not often seen.
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