Tree up to 35 m, bole up to 20 m, dbh up to 60 cm; buttresses outwards up to 1 m, upwards up to 5 m, the trunk fluted above. Bark reddish-brown, with small orange len-ticels, inner bark magenta or pink, sapwood yellow, latex white. Twigs densely cover-ed with peltate scales which have a dark reddish-brown centre and pale margin, barely fimbriate or with a short irregular fimbriate margin. Leaves 25–30 cm long, 22–24 cm wide; petiole 4.5–10 cm, petiole, rachis and petiolules densely covered with scales like those on the twigs. Leaflets (5–)7–11, 7–16 by 2.5–4 cm, narrowly elliptical or nar-rowly obovate, apex acuminate, base rounded or cuneate, with numerous scales like those on the twigs on the lower leaflet surface, sometimes deciduous and leaving that surface with numerous pits; veins 12–15 on each side of the midrib; petiolule 5–10 mm. Inflorescence up to 22 cm long, 20 cm wide; peduncle 0.5–4 cm, peduncle, rachis and branches densely covered with scales like those on the twigs. Flowers 1–1.75 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, pedicels 0.5–1.5 mm; the pedicel and calyx densely covered with peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin. Staminal tube 0.5–1.2 mm long, 0.8–1.5 mm wide, cup-shaped or obovoid, anthers 5, inserted just inside the rim of tube and pointing to-wards the centre of the flower. Infructescence up to 21 cm long, 20 cm wide, peduncle 3–5 cm. Fruits 2.3–3 cm long, 1.7–2.7 cm wide, obovoid, orange or brown, indehis-cent; fruitstalks up to 5 mm, pericarp c. 1 mm thick, brittle, without dehiscence lines, densely covered with scales either like those on the twigs or paler and more fimbriate; locule(s) (1 or) 2, each containing 0 or 1 seed. Seed arillate, the aril c. 2 mm thick, translucent, yellow or orange, edible, firmly adhering to the testa; seed without the aril c. 1.6 cm long, 1.3 cm wide and 0.8 cm through, the seed coat with branched venation.
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A tree. It grows 35 m tall. The trunk is 50 cm across and can have buttresses. It can be without branches for the first 20 m. Trees are separately male and female. The fruit are orange to brown and broadly oval. They are 2-3 cm long by 1.7-2.7 cm wide. There are 2 seeds.
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