Small tree up to 4 m. Twigs greyish–brown, densely covered with shiny orange– brown peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin. Leaves 25–56 cm long, 20–50 cm wide; petiole 8–16 cm. Leaflets 5–9, 9–25 by 3–11 cm, acuminate at apex, cuneate at the base, with scales like those on the twigs numerous on the midrib below and scatter-ed on the rest of that surface, with numerous minute reddish-brown pits on the upper and lower surfaces; veins 9–20 on each side of the midrib, reticulation visible below; petiolu e 0.3–10(–15) mm. Male inflorescence 5–6 cm long, 8–12 cm wide, sessile or with a peduncle up to 0.5 cm, the peduncle, rachis and branches densely covered with scales like those on the twigs, the scales more fimbriate on the distal branches. Flowers c. 1 mm long and in diam., subglobose, pedicel 0.5 mm, the pedicel and calyx with few orange–brown peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin. Petals 5. Staminal tube 0.3–0.4 mm high, 0.4–0.5 mm wide, cup-shaped, sometimes with the margin incurved; anthers 5, c. 0.3 mm long and 0.2 mm wide, ovoid, inserted inside the tube near the margin, protruding and filling the aperture. Infructescence c. 4 cm long and 2 cm wide, sessile, the rachis and branches densely covered with scales like those on the twigs. Fruits 2 cm in diam., subglobose, densely covered with scales like those on the twigs on the outside, indehiscent, the pericarp thin and brittle when dry; fruitstalks c. 0.3 cm.
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