Medium-sized tree with somewhat smooth trunk; young branches rusty tomentose and shallowly furrowed, older branches greyish brown and sometimes with lenticels.. Leaves generally opposite but sometimes subopposite, trifoliolate; petiole 3.5–6.5 cm. long, tomentose but becoming glabrescent with age, terete and longitudinally furrowed above; leaflets subsessile or with short petiolule up to 1 cm., elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 8–18(–22) cm. long, 3–6.5 cm. broad, sometimes unequal-sided, acuminate or occasionally acute at the apex, cuneate and sometimes oblique at the base, entire to shallowly and broadly crenate, papyraceous, generally glabrous except the midrib which is pubescent or pilose beneath; pellucid gland dots numerous and conspicuously dark beneath; midrib protruding beneath and furrowed above; lateral nerves 14–22 pairs.. Panicles axillary and terminal, axillary ones 1–6 cm. long, the terminal one up to 15 cm. long; branches densely rusty tomentose.. Flowers clustered, with pedicels 0.5–1.5 mm. long, hermaphrodite.. Sepals 4, united at the base or halfway, ± 1 mm. long, broadly ovate to deltoid, glabrous, hyaline on the margin and occasionally ciliate at the apex.. Petals 4, broadly ovate–oblong or elliptic, 1.8–3 mm. long, 1.5–3 mm. broad, obtuse, hyaline on the margin, glandular punctate.. Stamens (6–)8, 2–3.8 mm. long; anthers 0.8–1 mm. long.. Pistil densely glandular woolly; ovary 1–1.5 mm. long, bilocular, with 1 ovule in each locule; style very short or nil; stigmas 2, obscured by simple and glandular hairs.. Fruit drupaceous, ± bilobed (lobes sometimes different in size if one ovule aborted), compressed elliptic to somewhat quadrate, 12–16 mm. long and broad, glandular foveolate, pilose or strigose, bright crimson red or brown when ripe.. Seeds ellipsoid, 10–13 mm. long, 7–10 mm. broad.
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