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*Small to medium-sized tree up to 25 m tall, rarely a shrub; bole up to 90 cm in diameter, sometimes slightly buttressed; bark surface grey to greyish white, smooth or slightly rough, sometimes peeling in flakes; young braches densely reddish brown short-hairy, with many lenticels. *Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate; stipules absent; petiole 2.5–10.5 mm long, soft-hairy; leaflets elliptical to obovate, (3–)5.5–21 cm × (1–)3–11 cm, cuneate at base, acute to acuminate at apex, margins with small teeth, slightly leathery, long-hairy when young, later becoming glabrous on both sides, pinnately veined, with tufts of hairs in vein axils beneath. *Inflorescence an axillary, panicle 5–22 cm long, with 2–10 branches, finely hairy. *Flowers unisexual, slightly zygomorphic, 4-merous; pedicel 1–3 mm long; sepals free, c. 1.5 mm long; petals c. 1.5 mm × 1 mm, dirty white or yellowish; stamens 8, filaments 2–3 mm long, glabrous; ovary superior, deeply 2–3-lobed, style 2–3 mm long, 2–3-fid; male flowers with rudimentary ovary, female flowers with rudimentary stamens. *Fruit a 1–2(–3)-lobed drupe c. 6 mm in diameter, red or orange, sparsely hairy, 1–2(–3)-seeded. *Seeds ellipsoid, c. 5.5 mm long, straw-coloured.