Tree up to 12 m high; bole up to 8 m, up to 20 cm in diam. Outer bark grey brown; middle bark red; inner bark pink. Sapwood cream; heartwood pinkish-brown. Twigs with numerous reddish-brown stellate hairs which have arms up to 6 mm long, dense on young twigs but soon glabrescent, dark reddish-brown stellate scales interspersed. Leaves 44 cm long, 52 cm wide, petiole 8–17 cm long, petiole, rachis and petiolules with dense hairs like those on the twigs. Leaflets 5–7, 11–26 by 4–8 cm, acuminate at apex, tapering to a subcordate base, with dense hairs like those on the twigs on the mid-rib below; veins 12–19 on each side of the midrib, reticulation visible; petiolules c. 5 mm. Infructescence 37 cm long, sparsely branched, peduncle up to 24 cm long, slender and flexible. Fruits c. 2.5–3 cm long and 1.6–3 cm wide, orange, obovoid or subglo-bose, pericarp thin and brittle when dry, with numerous hairs like those on the twigs. Locule 1. Seed 1, c. 1.9 cm long, 1.7 cm wide and 1.4 cm thick, no aril seen, testa vascularized.
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