Tree up to 35 m. Bole up to 225 cm in circumference. Bark smooth, pale brown, red-dish-brown or pinkish-grey with numerous reddish-brown lenticels and with deciduous scales which expose reddish-brown patches underneath; inner bark green or red; sap-wood pale brown, pale pink, pale yellow or reddish-brown; latex white. Twigs stout, densely covered with peltate scales which have a dark reddish-brown centre and pale fimbriate margin, sometimes with reddish-brown stellate hairs interspersed near the apex. Leaves imparipinnate, up to 40 cm long and 20 cm wide; petiole up to 10 cm, petiole, rachis and petiolules with a few stellate hairs. Leaflets 15–25, 6–15 by 1–3.5 cm, coriaceous, lanceolate, acuminate at apex, rounded or subcuneate at the asymmetrical base, lower surface rugulose, with few to densely covered with peltate scales on the midrib and scattered peltate or stellate scales elsewhere; veins 20–50 on each side of the midrib, longitudinally wrinkled and lateral veins hardly prominent on lower surface; reticulation sometimes visible; petiolules up to 10 mm. Inflorescence c. 20 cm long and 10 cm wide; peduncle up to 6 cm, peduncle, rachis, branches and pedicels with indu-mentum like the twigs. Flowers up to 3 mm long and 2.5 mm wide; pedicel up to 0.5 mm. Calyx densely covered with stellate scales on the outside. Petals 3, densely cover-ed with stellate scales on the outside. Staminal tube shorter than the petals, subglobose, the aperture shallowly divided into c. 6 acute lobes; anthers 6, as long as or longer than the tube, narrowly ellipsoid, with a few simple hairs, inserted near the base of the tube and just protruding beyond the aperture. Infructescence with few fruits which ripen at different times; peduncle up to 6 cm, with surface and indumentum like the twigs. Fruits up to 6 cm long and 5 cm wide, brown, bright red or yellow, subglobose or ob-ovoid with a small beak, densely covered with minute reddish-brown stellate hairs, dehiscent. Locules 3, each containing one seed.
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