Alectryon Glaber (Blume) Radlk. (Malatambis)

Shrub or tree up to 3 m high. dbh c. 30 cm: stem slightly fluted, with rather inconspicuous thick buttresses: bark smooth, pale brown to ash grey. Twigs slightly grooved to terete, up to 5 mm thick, usually early glabrescent. Leaves 2-5(-7)-jugate: petiole semiterete to terete. I 8.5 cm long, (0.5-)I-2 mm thick; petiolules 18 mm long, terete to above f lattened to hollowed with 1 or 3 ribs. Leaflets opposite (to alternate), ovate to elliptic: glabrous (to slightly hairy on the midrib and beneath on the nerves to, exceptionally, (sub)tomentose: base symmetrical to oblique, margin mainly in the upper half only slightly serrate, dentate, or crenate (or entire): apex rounded to acute: midrib above prominulous: nerves 0.5-2 cm apart, spreading to fairly steep, curved to nearly straight, ending free or in marginal teeth, or looped and joined near the margin: Inflorescences axillary, racemes, panicles, (or thyrses), up to 9 cm long, simple or with some up to 4 cm long branches, few-flowered, hairy: peduncle 0.75-2.5 cm long: pedicels 1-1.5 mm long. Sepals c. 1 mm high, subconnate. Inside hairy. Petals absent. Stamens: filaments short: anthers c. 1.2 mm long. Pistil 2- (or 3-) locular with a lobed stigma. Fruits 2-lobed and then often cordate.