Tree up to 2–20 m; bole diam. 7–15 cm, sometimes with buttresses upwards up to 1.2 m. Outer bark smooth or scaly, greyish-brown or brown; inner bark pinkish-brown; sapwood white, pinkish-yellow or reddish-brown. Twigs densely covered with reddish-brown peltate scales, sometimes with paler stellate scales interspersed, sometimes with stellate hairs at the apex. Leaves 8.5–29 cm long, 4.5–29 cm wide; petiole 1–7 cm, petiole, rachis and branches densely covered with peltate and stellate scales like those on the twigs. Leaflets (1–)3–7, 4.5–22 by 2–7 cm, acuminate at apex, cuneate at the slight-ly asymmetrical base, with dark reddish-brown peltate scales and some paler stellate scales interspersed densely covering the midrib below and scattered elsewhere on the lower leaflet surface; veins 6–11 on each side of the midrib, not anastomosing; petio-lules up to 10(–40) mm. Inflorescence c. 13.5 cm long and 8.5 cm wide; peduncle 1.5– 3.5 cm, peduncle, rachis and branches with reddish-brown and pale brown stellate scales and peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin. Flowers 2–4 mm long and wide, el-lipsoid; pedicel 1–3 mm, pedicel and calyx densely covered with dark or pale brown stellate scales. Petals 4, 5 or rarely 6. Staminal tube 1.2–3 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, obovoid with the aperture 0.2–1 mm across; anthers 5, 1–1.3 mm long, 0.4–0.7 mm wide, ovoid, inserted a quarter up to half the way up the tube, either just protruding or included and visible through the aperture. Infructescence either with several fruits, c. 7 cm long and 6.5 cm wide with the peduncle c. 2 cm or the fruits solitary with a pedun-cle up to 3 cm, the peduncle, rachis and branches with indumentum like the inflores-cence. Fruits 2–2.8 cm long, 1.3–2.5 cm wide, orange brown or yellow, obovoid or ellipsoid, densely covered with reddish-brown and pale brown peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin, glabrescent. Locules 2, each containing 1 seed which is en-closed in a brown, translucent aril.
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Tree to 20 m tall. Indumentum of dark reddish brown peltate scales and paler stellate scales, dense on twigs, petioles, rachis and petiolules, inflorescences and infructescences, midrib of lower leaflet surface, calyces and fruits. Leaves 8.5–29 cm long. Leaflets (1) 3–7, 4.5–22 cm long, 2–7 cm wide; veins 6–11 pairs. Inflorescence c. 13.5 cm long. Flowers c. 4 mm long, c. 4 mm wide. Petals 4–6, white or yellow. Staminal tube obovoid, 1.2–3 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide; aperture 0.2–1 mm across; anthers 5, included. Infructescence c. 7 cm long. Fruit indehiscent, sub-globose, 1.5–2.8 cm long, 1.3–2.8 cm wide. Locules 2, each with 0 or 1 seed. Seeds enclosed in a translucent white aril.
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