Tree up to 5 m, with an irregularly rounded crown. Twigs slender, densely covered with brown stellate hairs which have arms up to 0.7 mm long. Leaves up to 36 cm long and 25 cm wide; petiole up to 10 cm, petiole, rachis and petiolules densely covered with hairs like those on the twigs. Leaflets 9–13, 6–22.5 by 1.3–3.5 cm, the margin slightly wavy and recurved when dry, caudate or acuminate at apex, cuneate and sometimes rounded on one side at the asymmetrical base, with stellate hairs like those on the twigs evenly scattered on lower surface and some paler stellate scales or peltate scales with a long fimbriate margin interspersed; veins 9–13 on each side of the midrib, some reticulation visible on lower surface; petiolules up to 8 mm. Inflorescence up to 30 cm long and wide, the final branches up to 10 mm long and tightly packed with sessile flowers, the branches clothed like the twigs. Flowers c. 1.2 mm long, subglobose or slightly longer than broad. Calyx with few or many pale brown stellate hairs on the outer sur-face. Petals 5. Staminal tube c. 0.8 mm long, cup-shaped with the apical margin incurv-ed; anthers ovoid about half the length of the tube and just protruding beyond the aper-ture. Infructescence up to 10 cm long. Fruits subglobose, up to 4 mm long, brown or red, the pericarp thin and brittle and with few hairs like those on the twigs.
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