Tree. Twigs usually densely covered with very dark reddish-brown peltate scales which have a reddish-brown fimbriate margin, with stellate scales of similar colour in-terspersed at the apex, sometimes with a few paler reddish-brown scales. Leaves 18–40 cm long, 11–29 cm wide; petiole 4–10 cm, petiole, rachis and petiolules densely covered with scales like those on the twigs. Leaflets 7–9, 5.5–17.5 by 2–5 cm, pale yellowish-green above and pale brownish-yellow below when dry, acuminate at apex, cuneate or rounded at the base; veins 6–11 on each side of the midrib; with scales like those on the twigs numerous on to densely covering the midrib above, few on to densely covering the veins above and either with similar scales or with scales which have a dark reddish-brown centre and a long white fimbriate margin few to numerous on the rest of the up-per leaflet surface and on the lower leaflet surface, with numerous pits on both surfaces; petiolules 1–3 cm. Male inflorescence 20 cm long, 11 cm wide; peduncle 5 cm. Male flower c. 1 mm long and wide; pedicels c. 1 mm, pedicel and calyx densely covered with dark reddish-brown peltate scales which have a long paler fimbriate margin. Petals 5. Staminal tube 0.2–0.4 mm high, 0.7–0.8 mm wide, shallowly cup-shaped; anthers 5, c. 0.5 mm long and 0.3 mm wide, ellipsoid, inserted on the margin of the tube and curved over the stigma. Female inflorescence 15 cm long and 6 cm wide; peduncle 4 cm. Female flowers c. 3 mm long and wide; pedicels 0.2–1 mm. Staminal tube c. 1 mm high, 1.5 mm wide with an aperture 1.5 mm across; anthers 6, c. 0.6 mm long and 0.4 mm wide, inserted just inside the margin and pointing towards the centre of the flower; otherwise like the male. Infructescence 5–10 cm long. Fruits 3 cm long and 1.7 cm wide, obovoid, narrowed to a stipe 7 mm long, with scales like those on the twigs den-sely covering the outside; peduncle 2 mm. Locules 2, each containing 0 or 1 seed.
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