Tree 6–15(–20) m. Bole up to 20 cm in diam., with small buttresses upwards to 60 cm and outwards to 30 cm. Outer bark brown; inner bark pale brown or pink; sapwood yellow or brown. Twigs stout, 2–4 cm in diam., densely covered with compact reddish-brown stellate hairs or brown hairs which have a central rachis and 2–4 whorls of arms radiating from it. Leaves imparipinnate, up to 155 cm long and 100 cm wide; peduncle up to 46 cm, the base of the peduncle up to 2.5 cm across on the abaxial side and up to 1.5 cm across on the adaxial side, the adaxial side deeply channelled, peduncle, rachis and petiolules densely covered with hairs like those on the twigs or densely covered with pale brown stellate hairs or scales. Leaflets 15–21, 8.5–68 by 3–22 cm wide, broadly acuminate at apex, rounded or sometimes subcordate or cuneate at base, with hairs like those on the twigs numerous on the lower surface of the leaflets when young, with reddish-brown stellate hairs or pale brown or nearly white stellate hairs and scales numerous on the midrib and veins on the lower surface and few on the rest of that sur-face when mature; veins 16–32 on each side of the midrib, the reticulation subpromi-nent on both surfaces; petiolules up to 1 cm. Inflorescence up to 32 cm long and 32 cm wide; peduncle up to 5.5 cm, peduncle, rachis and branches densely covered with hairs like those on the twigs or the distal branches densely covered with golden brown stellate hairs. Flowers 1.6–3.5 mm long, 1.6–2.5 mm wide, sessile and clumped around the distal branches of the sparsely branched inflorescence. Calyx with few pale brown stel-late scales. Corolla 1.3–3 mm long, 1.4–2.5 mm wide, divided to half way or almost to the base into 5 broad ovate lobes. Staminal tube 1–2.5 mm long, 1.1–1.8 mm wide, aperture 0.4–0.6 mm in diam., entire; anthers 5, occupying the middle or upper part of the tube and either included in or just protruding through the aperture. Infructescence up to 45 cm long and 50 cm wide, peduncle 12–18 cm, peduncle, rachis and branches den-sely covered with hairs like those on the twigs and with some pale brown stellate hairs interspersed. Fruits reddish-yellow, c. 3.5 cm in diam., subglobose or ellipsoid, with numerous to densely packed compact reddish-brown hairs or pale brown stellate hairs, indehiscent; locules 2 or 3, each containing 1 seed. Seeds to 2 cm wide and 1.2 cm thick.
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