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Leaves 3–5-foliolate; petioles 3–9 cm long, terete; median petiolules 0.3–1 cm long; leaflets 4–7 × 2–3.5 cm, median leaflet largest, obovate, curved downwards, acuminate at the apex, the tip acute or obtuse, rounded or cuneate at the base, entire or deeply toothed in the apical half, glabrous above, ± densely pubescent and sparsely gland-dotted beneath or pubescent only on the midrib and in the axils of nerves on the lower surface, nerves ± raised on both surfaces.
Shrub or small tree up to c. 10 m tall; bark fissured, greyish-cream in colour; older stems grey-cream glabrous; young stems with scattered orange-tawny hairs, shortly tomentose only on buds.
Drupe c. 1 × 0.5 cm, obovoid, rounded at apex, purplish-black at maturity, up to ± half enclosed in the enlarged calyx; fruiting calyx cup-shaped, pubescent, not gland-dotted.
Corolla 12–13 mm long, not gland-dotted, pubescent; tube white, 3–5 mm long, straight; lobes mauve, spreading, middle lower lobe largest, 6–9 × 6–10 mm, blue.
Calyx obconical, 5-toothed or truncate, with scattered hairs, not gland-dotted, accrescent in fruit; tube 2–2.5 mm long.
Inflorescence axillary, of slender simple few-flowered dichasia, 6–15 cm long, glabrous; bracteoles 1–5 mm long, linear.
Ovary obovoid, not gland-dotted, with some hairs at apex; truncate at the apex; style c. 3.5 mm long.
Stamens clearly exserted from tube; filaments with glandular hairs.
Flowers fragrant.
