Tree. Twigs greyish-brown or reddish-brown, with numerous to densely covered with pale brown stellate hairs. Leaves c. 41 cm long and 22 cm wide; petiole 13 cm, petiole, rachis and petiolules with numerous to densely covered with hairs like those on the twigs. Leaflets 13–23, 3.5–12 by 2–3.4 cm, coriaceous, acuminate at apex, cune-ate or rounded at the slightly asymmetrical base, with pale brown stellate hairs numer-ous to forming a dense cover on the midrib below, numerous on the upper and lower leaflet surfaces when young, glabrescent, with numerous pits on the upper and lower leaflet surfaces; veins 7–12 on each side of the midrib; petiolules to 10(–20) mm. In-florescence 24–45 cm long, 14–26 cm wide; peduncle 5–8 cm, peduncle, rachis and branches with numerous to densely covered with scales like those on the twigs. Flower 1–2 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, subsessile. Calyx densely covered with pale brown stel-late hairs on the outside. Petals 5. Staminal tube 0.7–1.3 mm long, 0.6–1.3 mm wide, obovoid, narrowed at the base, aperture 0.5–0.7 mm, shallowly lobed; anthers 5, 0.2– 0.4 mm long, 0.2–0.3 mm wide, inserted half way up the staminal tube, the tube thick-ened below the insertion of the anthers. Infructescence 22–25 cm long, 12–20 cm wide; peduncle 6–12 cm long. Fruits 0.5 cm in diam., subglobose, dark brown when dry, with few stellate scales on the outside.
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