Small tree to 6(–15 m). Bole to 1.5 m, branches ascending, bark pale brown. Twigs densely covered with dark orange or reddish-brown stellate hairs and scales. Leaves 12–35 cm long, 11–34 cm wide; petiole 1–9 cm long, petiole, rachis and petiolules with few to densely covered with hairs and scales like those on the twigs. Leaflets 3–11, 2.5– 18 by 0.5–5 cm, acuminate or caudate at the apex, cuneate or rounded at the asymmetri-cal base, with few to densely covered with peltate and stellate scales or hairs on the mid-rib and few to numerous on lateral veins and few or occasionally numerous on the rest of the surface, sometimes with numerous faint pits on the lower surface; veins 7–12 on each side of the midrib; petiolules 1–10(–16) mm. Inflorescence 5.5–17 cm long, to 14 cm wide, peduncle 1–25 cm long, peduncle, rachis and branches densely covered with stellate hairs and scales. Flowers 1–2 mm long and wide; subsessile or with a pedicel to 2 mm, the pedicel and calyx densely covered with pale orange-brown stellate hairs or scales. Corolla divided almost to the base into 5 obovate lobes. Staminal tube 1(–1.2) mm long, c. 1 mm wide, cup-shaped or obovoid, the aperture (0.4–)l mm across, en-tire or shallowly lobed, without hairs or with numerous pale yellow simple or stellate hairs inside; anthers 0.3–0.6 mm long, 0.3–0.5 mm wide, glabrous or with a few simple hairs, sometimes with tufts of simple white hairs at the apex, either inserted just inside the margin of the tube, protruding and pointing towards the centre of the flower or inserted about half way up the tube and just protruding, the staminal tube thickened below the anthers. Infructescence to 11 cm, peduncle to 6.5 cm, with few to numerous hairs or scales. Fruits 1.5–2.5 cm long, 1.2–2.7 cm wide, obovoid, brown, orange or yellow, with few to densely covered with scales on the outside. Locules 2, each con-taining one seed.
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