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Leaves 3–5-foliolate, aromatic when crushed; petiole 1.5–9 cm long, terete; petiolules absent or up to 0.6 cm long in median leaflet; leaflets 3–10 × 1.5–6 cm, elliptic to somewhat obovate, rounded or in apical leaves shortly acuminate at the apex, broadly cuneate to rounded at the base, entire, coriaceous, ± sparsely pubescent above, shortly lanate on the nerves and reticulation beneath or glabrescent, gland-dotted beneath, venation impressed above and the blade ± bullate, nerves and reticulation raised beneath.
A shrub or tree. It grows up to 6 m tall. It often has many branches from the base. The leaves have 3-5 leaflets. The leaves have long stalks but the leaflets are stalkless. The leaflets radiate from one point and the end one is the largest. The leaflets are 7.5 cm long and 1.9 cm wide. They are densely velvety below. The flowers are violet or 2 coloured. The occur in groups on long stalks in the axils of leaves. The fruit has a hard stone and a thin fleshy covering. It is black when mature. The fruit is edible.
Fruit an edible spherical drupe, dark brown to purplish-black at maturity, c. 4 × 3 cm, globose, the lower end not or hardly enclosed in the enlarged calyx; fruiting calyx at first somewhat cup-shaped up to c. 1.5 cm long and c. 1 cm wide, later opening out becoming saucer-shaped, shortly toothed, puberulent, sometimes gland-dotted.
Corolla c. 23 mm long, gland-dotted, villose with tangled pilose hairs and gland-tipped hairs outside, gland-dotted; tube creamy-white and mauve, 12–13 mm long, curved; lobes at acute angle to tube, middle lower lobe mauve, 6–7 × 6.5–7 mm, other lobes creamy-white smaller and rounded or triangular.
Inflorescences axillary, of few-flowered simple dichasia, 4–12 cm long, shortly orange-tawny villose or lanate with ± densely tangled pilose hairs; bracteoles 0.8–2 cm long, narrow-lanceolate or narrow-spathulate.
Much branched shrub or small deciduous tree up to 8(17) m tall; bark grey-brown, fissured becoming stringy; older branches grey-brown or red-brown pubescent; young branches and twigs densely orange-tawny lanate.
Calyx obconical, 5-lobed, gland-dotted, lanate outside, strongly accrescent in fruit; tube 3–4 mm long; lobes 2–3 mm long, erect.
Ovary obovoid, truncate apex and lanate at the apex, gland-dotted; style c. 14–16 mm long, exserted.
Stamens exserted from corolla tube; filaments with glandular hairs.
