Small tree up to 12 m. Bole up to 50 cm in circumference. Bark smooth, brownish-grey, lenticellate. Sapwood pale pink or white; latex white. Twigs stout, with a few white or reddish-brown stellate hairs. Leaves imparipinnate, up to 130 cm long and 100 cm wide; petiole up to 35 cm, petiole, rachis and petiolules with hairs like the twigs. Leaflets 7–9(–15), 16–48 by 6–12 cm, pale brown when dry, coriaceous, obovate or oblanceolate, recurved at the margin, acuminate or shortly caudate at apex, attenuate or occasionally rounded at base, upper surface rugulose, lower surface more markedly so and With a few stellate hairs on the midrib and veins; veins 7–20 on each side of the mid-rib, midrib and lateral veins subprominent with longitudinal wavy ridges on upper sur-face, prominent and more markedly ridged on lower surface; petiolules up to 25(–40) mm. Inflorescence up to 30 cm long and 15 cm wide; peduncle up to 14 cm, peduncle and branches with indumentum like the twigs. Flowers c. 3 cm long and 3 cm wide, subglobose; pedicels c. 1 mm, the pedicels and bracteoles densely covered with stellate scales Calyx with few to numerous stellate scales. Petals 3. Staminal tube shorter than the corolla, cup-shaped, the apical margin shallowly lobed; anthers 7–9, as long as the tube and just protruding beyond the aperture. Infructescence with up to 5 fruits, very stout, the peduncle and branches with indumentum like the twigs. Fruits 6–7 by 5–6 cm, ellipsoid or obovoid, red or orange-red, dehiscent, densely covered with compact reddish-brown stellate hairs on the outer surface. Pericarp 2–5 mm thick, thickest at the apex, with white latex. Locules 3, each containing 1 seed. Seeds 4.5 cm long, 1.5 cm wide and 1.8 cm thick, completely covered with a red aril.
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