Tree to 10 m tall. Indumentum of dark reddish-or purplish-brown peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin, sparse to densely covering twigs, petioles, rachis and petiolules, midrib of lower leaflet surfaces, inflorescences and infructescences, calyces and fruits and scattered on lower leaflet surface. Leaves (18–) 42–72 cm long. Leaflets (7–) 9–11, 7–29 cm long, 3.5–9.5 cm wide; veins 6–14 pairs; reticulation barely or not visible. Inflorescence 7–19 cm long. Flowers 2–4 mm long, 2–4 mm wide. Petals 2 or 3, white or yellow. Staminal tube subglobose, 2 mm long, 2 mm wide; anthers 6, just protruding beyond aperture. Infructescence c. 6 cm long. Fruit dehiscent, ovoid, 3–5.5 cm long, 2.3–4 cm wide, longitudinally ribbed, brown or orange-brown; inner pericarp white or pinkish white. Locules 3, each with 0 or 1 seed. Seeds 2–4.2 cm long, partly enclosed by a thin orange aril.
Grows on basalt-derived soils, in rainforest, coastal rainforest and complex mesophyll forest, 0–930 m alt.
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