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Leaves (3)5-foliolate; petioles 4–12 cm long, terete; median petiolules 0.3–3 cm long; leaflets 4–14 × 2.5–5.5 cm, median leaflet largest, elliptic to oblong-elliptic or obovate, acuminate or occasionally rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, entire to occasionally dentate toward the apex; upper surface ± scabridulous with reticulation slightly sunken; lower surface paler, pubescent with hairs longer on the nerves, densely gland-dotted.
Corolla 4-lobed, ± actinomorphic, 3–5 mm long, pubescent and gland-dotted outside, hairy in the throat; tube white or mauve, 2.5 mm long, straight; lobes yellow or mauve, spreading to reflexed, the 2 lower lobes 2 × 1.5–2 mm, the 2 upper lobes somewhat smaller.
Inflorescences axillary or sometimes appearing terminal, of short slender few-flowered panicles, 1–5 cm long, creamy tomentose; peduncles spreading, sometimes horizontally, 1–1.4 cm long, pedicels filiform, 1.5–6 mm long; bracteoles 1–5 mm long, linear.
Straggling shrub to 3 m or tree to 12 m tall with upper branches scandent; bark fissured, grey-brown; older stems grey-brown tomentose; young stems 4-angled toward the apex, pale yellow tomentose.
Drupe 0.5–0.7 × 0.4–0.6 cm, obovoid-spherical, black at maturity; fruiting calyx thinly saucer-shaped, pubescent, gland-dotted.
Calyx campanulate, 4-toothed, gland-dotted, pubescent, accrescent in fruit; tube c. 1.5 mm long; lobes 0.3 mm long, erect.
Ovary globose, gland-dotted at rounded apex, glabrous; style c. 2 mm long.
Stamens clearly exserted from corolla tube; filaments glabrous.
Flowers actinomorphic, c. 5 mm long, aromatic.
