Synonym: Ruprechtia triflora.
BotanyTrees or shrubs 3 to 8, to 10 m tall; branches slightly ridged, brown or brownish, glabrous, pubescent when young:
Leaves: clustered in brachyblasts; obovate to elliptic; ± 3 by 2 cm; apex acute to obtuse; base attenuate; margin smooth; epiphyll with adpressed hairs, hypophyll densely hairy; ochrea 5-7 mm long, deciduous, membranaceous, externally adpressed-pilose.
Inflorescences: in brachyblasts; up to 5 mm long; bracts ovate, 2 mm long, densely hairy; bractlets 3 mm long, densely pubescent.
Flowers: sessile or with pedicel 1 to 3 mm long; densely hairy; outer tepals ± 3 by 1 mm; hairy; connate at base in a short tube 1 mm long; inner tepals linear, acute, ± 2 mm long; stamens filaments ± 1.5 mm long, anthers ± 1 mm long; pistillate flowers in fruit 20 to 27 mm long, outer tepals oblanceolate, obtuse, hairy, ± 20 by 5 mm, connate at base forming a tube 3 to 4 mm long; inner tepals subulate, 6-7 mm long, adnate to base of tube by 3-4 mm, hairy; styles 1 mm long; stigmas 1.5 mm long, linear.
Fruit: achenes; trisulcate; ± 7 by 3 mm; pilose, especially at the top; dull, brownish.