Tree up to 10 m, shrubby or loosely branched. Twigs with numerous to densely covered with dark reddish–brown peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin. Leaves 10–40 cm long, 12–42 cm wide; petiole 3–10 cm long, petiole, rachis and petiolules with numerous to densely covered with scales like those on the twigs. Leaflets 3–5, 8–26 by 3–8 cm, dark brown when dry; apex acuminate caudate, cuneate or sometimes rounded at the slightly asymmetrical base, with scales like those on the twigs, few to numerous on the midrib and scattered among numerous pale stellate scales or with numerous entire peltate scales on the surface below; veins 10–18 on each side of the midrib; petiolules 2–6(–9) mm. Male inflorescence up to 26 cm long and 22 cm wide, peduncle 1–5 cm; the peduncle, rachis and branches with few to numerous reddish-brown peltate scales and stellate hairs. Flowers up to 1.7 m long and 2 mm wide, pedicels up to 1.5 mm with occasional stellate scales. Calyx with numerous stellate scales on the outside. Petals 4 or 5, Staminal tube c. 0.7 mm long, cup-shaped, shallowly lobed, with 5 small ovoid anthers, 0.3 mm long, inserted on the margin of the tube and pointing towards the centre of the flower. Infructescence up to 6 cm long and wide, sessile or with a peduncle up to 5 mm, peduncle, rachis and branches with numerous peltate and stellate scales like those on the inflorescence. Ripe fruits up to 2.5 cm long, 2 cm wide, subglobose, the pericarp soft, yellow, and with numerous stellate scales on the outside. Seeds 1–3, 10–12 mm long, 6–7 mm wide and c. 4 mm thick, brown, with a thin gelatinous aril.
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