Walsura trifoliolata

Walsura trifoliolata is an evergreen and medium-sized tree (up to 12-15 meters) with a dense foliage and short bole.
The young shoots and the branchlets are tomentose.

The bark of Walsura trifoliolata is pale brown, longitudinally fissured and transversally cracked with age.
The branches of Walsura trifoliolata are brittle. The branchlets are velvet-hairy.

The leaves of Walsura trifoliolata grow alternately on the stem (spirally arranged).
Walsura trifoliata has trifoliate leaves. These compound leaves are about 8-15 cm long and wide.
The leaves have a 2.5-4 cm long petiole.
The leaflets are leathery and coriaceous and 5-9 cm long and 2.5-3.5 wide. They are elliptic with a obtuse-retuse apex, rounded-cuneate base and entire margins.
The leaflets are glabrous, dark-green glossy above and light-green beneath with prominent midrib. The leaflets have a 4-5 mm long petiolule.
The venation of the leaflets is reticulate.

The inflorescences of Walsura trifoliolata are terminal and axillary corymbose panicles up to 15 cm long with 5-8 cm long peduncles.
The flowers of Walsura trifoliolata are pentamerous, creamy-white, 6-7 mm across with a 1 mm long pedicel.
The calyx is composed of 5 lobes. These calyx-lobes are pubescent, yellow-greenish, triangular and about 1 mm long.
The corolla is composed of 5 cream-coloured and puberulous petals. They are ovate-oblong with acute apex and about 2.5 mm long and 1.5 mm wide.
There are 10 stamens. They are 1.5 mm long and connate at the base.
The ovary is globose, 1.5-2 mm across and 2-locular with 2 ovules in each locule. The style is 1 mm long with a capitate stigma.
The flowers are fragrant.

The fruit of Walsura trifoliolata is an ovoid drupe. 
It is 1.5-2 cm long and 1-1.5 cm wide, tomentose with a solitary stone inside.

The seed of Walsura trifoliolata is enclosed into an ovoid stone. The stone is light brown-coloured and about 8 mm x 6 mm. There is one stone per fruit and each stone contains one seed.