Tree up to 30 m (–50 m), with a broad rounded crown. Bole up to 13 m, up to 113 cm in circumference, with up to 7 L-shaped buttresses upwards up to 120 cm and out-wards up to 215 cm. Outer bark pale greyish-brown or reddish-brown, longitudinally split at wide intervals, with longitudinal rows of lenticels; inner bark reddish-brown, or dark orange-brown; sapwood paler than inner bark; heartwood pale yellowish-brown, almost white; latex white. Twigs slender, densely covered with peltate scales which have a dark brown centre and pale margin. Leaves imparipinnate, 19–65 cm long, 14– 35 cm wide; petiole 10–20 cm, petiole, rachis and petiolules densely covered with scales like those on twigs. Leaflets (5–)13–19, 8–24 by 1.7–6.5 cm, subcoriaceous, usually oblong, sometimes lanceolate or elliptical, acuminate at apex, rounded or shortly cuneate at the sometimes asymmetrical base, with scales like those on the twigs densely covering the upper surface when young but deciduous before maturity and sparse on to densely covering the lower surface; veins 12–21 on each side of the midrib; petiolules 5–10( –20) mm. Inflorescence up to 30 cm long and 20 cm wide; peduncle up to 15 cm, peduncle, rachis, branches and pedicels clothed like the twigs. Flowers up to 3.5 mm long and 2.5 mm wide; pedicel up to 2 mm long, pedicel and calyx densely covered with scales like those on the twigs. Petals 5 (or 6). Staminal tube longer than the corolla, obovoid, with a minute pore 0.2–0.3 mm across which is entire at the margin; anthers 5, 1 /3 to 1/2 the length of the tube, ovoid, inserted near the base and included in the tube. Infructescence up to 30 cm long and 25 cm wide, with c. 50 fruits; the peduncle up to 15 cm, peduncle, rachis, branches and fruitstalks with indumentum like twigs. Fruits up to 2 cm long and wide, usually obreniform in outline, flattened, wrinkled when dry, brown, red, orange or yellow, densely covered with scales like those on the twigs, indehiscent, sometimes subglobose (New Guinea); the fruitstalks up to 1 cm. Locules 1 or 2 (or 3), each containing 1 seed’, aril thin, brown, translucent and sweet.
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Tree to 30 m tall. Indumentum of pale brown or almost white peltate scales which have a dark grey centre and sometimes a fimbriate margin, densely covering twigs, petioles, rachis and petiolules, inflorescences, infructescences, calyces and fruits, scattered on midrib on lower leaflet surface and occasional on the rest of that surface. Leaves c. 45 cm long. Leaflets c. 15, the laterals alternate, asymmetrically ovate or elliptic, 9.5–11 cm long, 2.5–3.5 cm wide, rounded on one side and cuneate on the other side of the markedly asymmetrical base, with an obtuse acumen 6–9 mm long, brownish green to reddish brown when dry, with numerous faint reddish brown pits on lower surface; lateral veins 13–15 pairs. Flowers not seen. Fruits 28–30 mm long, c. 25 mm wide, yellow or orange, densely covered with scales similar to those on twigs but smaller and darker brown. Locules 2, each containing 0 or 1 seed. Seeds c. 18 mm long, brown, completely covered with a white aril.
A tree. It grows up to 25-30 m high. The trunk is 30-40 cm across. It can have buttresses. The leaves are compound and alternate. The leaves are large and have leaves along the stalk and one at the end. They are 18-65 cm long. They are covered with pale brown scales. There are 5-19 leaflets. These are 7-24 cm long by 2-7 cm wide. The flowers are in a group in the axils of leaves. The flowers have 5 or 6 petals. They are yellow and 3-5 mm long. The fruit is a round scaly berry. It is yellow or orange. They are about 3 cm long. There are 1 or 2 brown seeds.
A mid-canopy tree in primary forests; swamps; savannah; kerangas; monsoon forests; moss forests; sides of rivers and roadsides; growing on clayey loams, samdstones, sands and limestones; at elevations from sea level to 2,100 metres.
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A tropical plant. It grows in deep, fertile, wet soils. It grows up to 2,100 m above sea level. It grows in evergreen and mixed deciduous forests usually near streams. It can be on limestone or sandstone bedrock.
Grows in rainforest at c. 50 m alt.
UsesButtresses for house-building (Solomon Islands: San Cristobal); wood used for spear shafts (Philippines: Luzon, Mountain Prov.), axe-handles (Solomons: Guadal-canal), in house construction (Halmahera).
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The fruit is eaten. The roots are used for soup. The young leaves and flowers are eaten as a relish with fish.
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