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Small tree up to 8 (15) m. tall; bark papery, green when young, rusty-red and flaking off when old; young branches pubescent, spiny. Leaves pinnate; petiole c. 1 cm. long, densely pubescent; leaflets 6–10-jugate, lamina up to 7·5 × 2·3 cm., lowest leaflets smaller and ovate, others narrowly oblong, terminal one obovate-oblong, apex obtuse or subacute, margins serrate, base rounded and often slightly asymmetric, pubescent on both surfaces or at least on the nerves beneath, venation prominently reticulate. Flowers in axillary sessile clusters on short side-shoots. Calyx c. 2 mm. long, campanulate, lobed somewhat less than half-way, densely pubescent outside. Petals c. 4·5 mm. long, densely pubescent outside. Stamen-filaments subterete. Disk 4-lobed. Fruit c. 1·8 cm. in diam., subglobose, somewhat what flattened, glabrous; pseudaril with 4 wavy-margined arms; endocarp c. 1 cm. in diam., lumpy-rugose, with 2 moderately convex faces.