Small tree up to 5 m, bole up to 3 m, 2 cm in diam. Twigs sometimes with few, nu-merous or densely covered with compact reddish-brown stellate hairs (some of which have clumps of arms around a central rachis) and/or pale brown peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin. Leaves imparipinnate, 60–105 cm long; petiole 18–40 cm, with numerous scales like those on the twigs. Leaflets (7–)9–17, 7.5–26 cm by 3–7 cm, cuneate at the base, acuminate at the apex, pale brown when dry, the midrib below with few pale scales and reddish-brown hairs like those on the twigs and with scatter-ed to numerous inconspicuous, pale brown stellate and peltate scales on the rest of the lower surface, leaflet surfaces matt, reticulation visible on the lower surface; veins 9–16 on each side of the midrib, with shorter lateral veins in between; petiolule 5–10 mm. Inflorescence 13–19 cm long, 4–8 cm wide, with one or two orders of branches only; peduncle 1.5–2.5 cm, peduncle, rachis and branches with numerous to densely cover-ed with hairs and scales like those on the twigs. Flower 3.5–5.5 mm long, 3.5–6 mm wide; pedicel c. 2 mm, densely covered with stellate hairs or scales. Calyx densely cov-ered with stellate hairs or scales on the outside. Corolla tube 4.5 mm long, 4–4.5 mm wide, divided almost to the base into 3 subrotund to broadly ovate lobes which are densely covered with brown stellate scales on the outside. Staminal tube 2.5–4 mm long, 2–3.5 mm wide, the aperture 1–1.5 mm across, entire or shallowly lobed; anthers 9 or 10, inserted near the base of the tube, included or just protruding. Infructescence up to 9 cm long and 6 cm wide; peduncle 0.5–1 cm long, the peduncle, rachis and branches with numerous hairs and scales like those on the twigs. Fruits 1–9, 3–3.2(–4) cm long, 2.9–3 cm in diam., obovoid, dehiscent, orange or reddish-brown, densely covered with reddish-brown peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin and with numerous compound stellate hairs interspersed; the pericarp thin and moulded around the seeds when dry, dehiscing into three when ripe, white inside. Locules 3, each containing 0 or 1 seed. Seeds 2, 1–3.1 cm long, 1–1.8 cm wide, c. 1.6 cm through, almost or com-pletely covered with a red aril c. 1 mm thick.
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