Tree up to 25 m. Bole up to 125 cm in circumference. Bark smooth brown or grey; inner bark pink or red and fibrous; sapwood pink or pale pink; latex white. Twigs stout, densely covered with brown or orange-brown peltate or stellate scales. Leaves impari-pinnate, up to 40 cm long; petiole up to 15 cm, petiole, rachis and petiolules with indu-mentum like the twigs. Leaflets 3–9, 7.5–25 by 4–10 cm, often slightly bluish-green above and orange-brown below when dry, acuminate at apex, rounded or cuneate at base, with few to numerous peltate or stellate scales on the midrib and lateral veins; veins 8–22 on each side of the midrib; petiolules up to 10(–35) mm. Inflorescence axillary or ramiflorous, up to 20 cm long and 15 cm wide; peduncle up to 1.5 cm, peduncle, rachis, branches and pedicels densely covered with stellate hairs or scales. Flowers c. 2.5 mm long; pedicels up to 1 mm. Calyx densely covered with stellate scales on the out-side; Petals 5. Staminal tube shorter than the corolla, subglobose, with a wide entire aperture; anthers 5, about half the length of the staminal tube, ovoid, inserted just above the centre and curved with the tube with the apices just protruding through the aperture. Infructescence axillary or ramiflorous, up to 40 cm long with up to 25 fruits; peduncle up to) 9 cm, peduncle, branches and pedicels stout with surface and indumentum like the twigs. Fruits up to 4.5 cm long and 3 cm wide, pyriform, yellow or brown; densely covered with orange-brown stellate hairs with numerous short arms; fruitstalks up to 1.5 cm. Locule 1, containing 1 seed.
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