Tree 2–15(–20) m. Bole c. 10 cm in diam. Bark brown; sapwood pale yellow. Twigs densely covered with dark reddish-brown peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin and some orange-brown stellate scales interspersed. Leaves 9–42 cm long, 7–24 cm wide; petiole 1.5–11 cm, petiole, rachis and petiolules densely covered with scales like those on the twigs. Leaflets (7–)9–11, 3.5–18 by 1.5–6.5 cm, acuminate at apex, usu-ally cuneate, sometimes rounded at the base, veins 8–15 on each side of the midrib, densely covered with scales like those on the twigs on the midrib and occasionally on the veins below, with numerous faint pits on the rest of that surface; petiolules 1–13 mm. Male inflorescence 18–22 cm long, 12–16 cm wide; peduncle 3–5 cm; female inflorescence c. 9.5 cm long and 4 cm wide; peduncle 0.5–2 cm, peduncle, rachis and branches in both sexes densely covered with scales like those on the twigs or sometimes with stellate hairs. Male and female flowers 1–2 mm long and wide, subglobose; pedi-cels 0.5–1.2 mm, pedicel and calyx densely covered with dark reddish-brown stellate scales or hairs. Petals 5. Staminal tube 0.6–1 mm long and wide, cup-shaped or ob-ovoid with a lobed margin; anthers 5, 0.2–0.6 mm long and 0.2–0.5 mm wide, ovoid, with pale yellow margins and either without hairs or scales or densely covered with white or pale brown simple or stellate hairs, scattered on the inside of the tube and sometimes on the outside of the tube or along the margins of the lobes, inserted in the upper half of the tube either protruding and filling the aperture or barely protruding. Infructescence 3.5–12 cm long, 4–12 cm wide; peduncle up to 2 cm, peduncle, rachis and branches densely covered with scales like those on the twigs. Fruits obovoid, 1.2 cm long and 0.8 cm wide, bright orange or brown, with dense scales.
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