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A small, spreading often somewhat stunted tree to 10 m high, with a milky latex.Bole short, straight, c. 25 cm in diameter; bark rough, reticulate, c. 2 cm thick, dark grey; wood dull brown.Twigs thick, ferrugineous-pubescent at first, later glabrescent; leaf scar margins raised, tuberculiform.Leaves alternate, subopposite or opposite; petioles 2–11 cm long; leaflets 3–5(7), the median often much larger than the laterals, 6–15 × 2.5–5.5 cm, elliptic-oblong, oblanceolate or obovate, rounded, obtuse or subacute at the apex, attenuate or cuneate at the base, thinly coriaceous, the midrib sunk in a channel, fairly prominent beneath, evenly pubescent along the midrib and otherwise sparingly pubescent above at first, later glabrescent, evenly to densely fulvous- to sericeous-tomentose beneath, shiny and dark green above, duller and paler beneath; lateral nerves in 10–17 pairs, brochidodromous well within the margin, often with interstitials, slightly prominent above; petiolules 1–7 mm long, or leaflets subsessile.Male inflorescences subsessile, or with peduncles 1–7 mm long, densely ferrugineous-tomentose; bracts 1.5 mm long, suborbicular-ovate, pubescent; flowers densely capitate.Female peduncles 3 mm long, extending a little in fruit, commonly 1-flowered; bracts 3 mm long, oblong-lanceolate.Male flowers: pedicels 0.5 mm long; sepals 6–8, 2 mm long, oblong, obtuse, ferrugineous-pubescent without, glabrous within; stamens 7, 5–6 mm long, anthers c. 1 mm long, bright yellow; disk 2 mm in diameter, slightly convex; pistillode minute or absent.Female flowers: pedicels 0.5 mm long, extending to 5 mm in fruit, stout, ferrugineous-pubescent; sepals 2.5–3 × 1.5 mm, triangular-lanceolate, minutely pubescent within at the apex, otherwise more or less as in the male; disk 2 mm in diameter; ovary 2-locular, 1.5–3 × 1.5–3 mm, ovoid-subglobose, densely ferrugineous-tomentose; styles 2, 1–1.5 mm long, densely tomentose, stigmas velvety, greyish-yellow-brown.Fruit 1.5 × 1.6 cm, obovoid-subglobose, 2-lineate, brownish velvety-tomentose, orange when ripe.Seeds 1 × 1 × 0.4 cm, compressed-rhomboid, pale yellowish-brown.