Tree 4-13 m high. Bole 7.5-10 cm in diam. Outer bark light brown; inner bark yellow or greenish-yellow, latex white. Sapwood pale yellow; heartwood pinkish-yellow. Twigs densely covered with dark reddish-brown peltate scales which have a paler fimbriate margin. Leaves 17-40 cm long, 13-30 cm wide, petiole 2.5-6 cm; petiole, rachis and petiolules with numerous scales like those on the twigs. Leaflets 5-7(-9), 4.5-15 by 2-5.5 cm, cuneata at base, the apex with a parallel-sided acumen, with few to numerous pale peltate scales like those on the twigs on the lower leaflet surface with paler scales scattered in between; veins 6-8 on each side of the midrib; petiolules 3-5(-15) mm. Inflorescences 2.5-16 cm long, 4-13 cm wide; peduncle, rachis and branches with few pale brown peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin. Flower 1.5-2 mm long and wide, pedicels 0.5-1 mm, without or with a few stellate hairs. Calyx without or with numerous to densely covered with stellate scales. Petals 5. Staminal tube 0.5-1 mm long, 1.2-2 mm wide, cup-shaped with the margin incurved, aperture 0.8-1.3 mm across with a lobed margin, anthers inserted just inside the margin or about a third of the way down the tube, protruding and pointing towards the centre of the flower. Infructescence c. 6 cm long and 4 cm wide, peduncle c. 1 cm; peduncle, rachis and branches with few pale brown peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin. Fruits 1-2.5 cm long, obovoid, brownish green, densely covered with reddish-brown peltate scales which have a short fimbriate margin; locule 1. Seed 1, ?with a thin gelatinous aril.
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