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Much-branched shrub or tree 3–15 m. tall; bark silvery grey; branchlets pale greyish, lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves trifoliate; petiole 3–16 cm. long, grooved, glabrous or minutely puberulous; petiolule of terminal leaflet 1.2–2 cm. long; leaflets drying pale bright green, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 9–19.5 cm. long, 3.5–9 cm. wide, rounded to acuminate at the apex, narrowly cuneate at the base, subentire, coarsely undulate-crenate and shortly denticulate (the teeth hydathodes) or serrate, thin, glabrous or minutely puberulent on nerves beneath with white hairs and sometimes with tufts in the nerve axils beneath; lateral nerves in 7–13 pairs. Inflorescences up to 28 cm. long, much branched, the branches 10–14 cm. long, glabrous or sparsely white-puberulous; peduncle 14–20 cm. long; cymules few-flowered, sessile; pedicels 3–4 mm. long, glabrous. Flowers white or yellow; outer sepals round, 1.8 mm.diameter, inner elliptic, 1.8 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, glabrous; petals spathulate, 1.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, with hairy scale. Filaments 2 mm. long; staminodes in female flowers 0.6 mm. long. Ovary 2-lobed, minutely pubescent; style 1.5 mm. long. Fruit red, subglobose, 7 mm. in diameter, minutely puberulous when young or ± glabrous.