Small tree up to 3.5(–8) m, unbranched or rarely forked. Stem or bole up to 10 cm in diam. Outer bark smooth, greyish-green or pale brown, with large lenticels; inner bark pale orange or brown; sapwood pale yellowish-brown, becoming orange or brown towards the centre; latex white. Twigs stout, densely covered with reddish-brown stel-late hairs which have arms up to 1 mm long. Leaves imparipinnate, up to 100 cm long and 80 cm wide; petiole up to 15 cm, petiole, rachis and petiolules with indumentum like the twigs. Leaflets 13–21(–25), 15–40 by 1–4 cm, linear-lanceolate, apex caudate, acute, base asymmetrical, rounded or subcordate, with numerous to densely covered with hairs like those on the twigs on the midrib on lower surface, few to numerous on the veins, sparse to numerous on the lamina with the arms of adjacent hairs usually overlapping and with smaller paler hairs with fewer arms on the surface in between; veins 18–25 on each side of the midrib, reticulation usually visible; petiolules 0–5 mm. Inflorescence up to 20 cm long and 12 cm wide; peduncle up to 3 cm, peduncle, rachis, branches and pedicels with numerous to densely covered with brown hairs like those on the twigs. Flowers c. 1.5 mm long; pedicels up to 1.5 mm. Calyx with numerous stellate scales on the outside. Petals 5. Staminal tube about 2/3 the length of the corolla, subglo-bose, irregularly lobed at the apical margin, anthers 5, about half the length of the tube, ovoid, just protruding through the aperture. Infructescence up to 10 cm long; peduncle c. 5 mm, peduncle, rachis, branches and fruitstalks with indumentum like the inflorescence. Fruits up to 2 cm in diam., subglobose, yellowish-green or yellowish-brown; pericarp soft and mealy, densely covered with reddish-brown stellate hairs on the out-side. Locules 2, each containing 1 seed. Seed pale yellowish-green with a complete translucent aril.
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