Tree up to 20 m, usually with a broad rounded crown. Bole up to 15 m, up to 120 cm in circumference, with watery exudate when cut, sometimes with L-shaped buttresses upwards up to 55 cm and outwards up to 36 cm. Outer bark brown, pale green, pale orange-brown, pinkish-brown, pale brownish-grey or grey, sometimes with transverse and longitudinal striations or rows of lenticels; inner bark yellowish-brown, orange or green: sap wood brown or pale yellowish-pink, pale brown or orange; heartwood ma-genta, sometimes with white latex. Twigs stout, thickly covered with peltate scales which have a brown centre and pale brown shortly fimbriate margin. Leaves in spirals which become dense towards the ends of the twigs, imparipinnate, up to 90 cm long and 60 cm wide; petiole up to 20 cm, petiole, rachis and petiolules ridged and with in-dumentum like the twigs, but the scales sometimes brown throughout. Leaflets 9–15, 4–30 by 2–10 cm, dark yellowish-green on upper surface, paler on lower surface, coriac sous, recurved at the margin, acuminate at apex, rounded or cuneate at the asym-metrical base, when young both surfaces densely covered with pale brown or colour-less, s liny, peltate scales, when mature upper surface rugose and with a few scattered scales, lower surface with numerous to densely covered with scales, those on the main veins reddish-brown; veins 4–13 on each side of the midrib; petiolules 3–20 mm. Male inflorescence up to 39 cm long and 20 cm wide; peduncle up to 9 cm long, peduncle, rachis, branches and pedicels thickly covered with scales like those on the twigs. Male flowers up to 2 mm in diam., subglobose, fragrant; pedicels up to 1 mm long. Calyx with few to densely covered with peltate scales. Petals 5. Staminal tube c. 1 mm long, 1 mm wide, obovoid, the aperture c. 0.5 mm across, shallowly 5-lobed, with white stel-late hairs in dense clumps on the inner surface of the tube near the apex and few on the outer surface; anthers c. 0.5 mm long, 0.3 mm wide, ovoid, reaching or protruding just beyond the aperture, densely covered with white stellate hairs. Female flowers similar to the male but up to 5 mm long, obovoid; sessile or with pedicels up to 1 mm; anthers c. 1 /3 the length of the tube and inserted in the upper 1/2 or 1/3. Fruits narrowly ob-ovoid when young, up to 5 cm long, 3.5 cm wide and subglobose, often with a short beak up to 5 mm and a short stipe up to 5 mm when mature, brown or yellow, densely covered with brown peltate scales. Locule 1, containing one seed; aril translucent, white.
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