Trees up to 40 m tall, bole 25 m, buttressed. Twigs sparsely minutely strigose, early glabrescent. Leaves with petiole 2.5-6 cm and internodes of rachis 1.5-3 cm, terete, channelled above. Leaflets oblong or obovate-oblong, 6-18 by 2-6 cm, apex acuminate, base acute to obtuse, somewhat decurrent, margin serrate, nerves 18-30 on each side of midrib, sparely minutely strigose to glabrous; petiolule 4-10 mm. Stipules triangular-ovate to ovate-oblong, c. 3 by 0.5 mm. Inflorescence of c. 250 flowers or more, up to 12 by 12 cm, subunits inserted in opposite axils of most distal pair of leaves; peduncle up to 3 cm; branches sparsely and minutely strigose at base to densely so in ultimate branchlets. Flowers with short pedicel from 0.5 mm thick merging into receptacle to 1.5 mm in diameter. Sepals ovate, 1.7-2.8 by 1.5-2.2 mm, acute, shortly strigose beneath, densely short-hirsute above. Stamens with filaments 0.8-1.7 mm long and 0.2-0.3 mm wide at base, anthers ovoid, retuse to faintly apiculate at apex, obtuse to retuse at base, 0.5-0.7 by 0.4-0.5 by 0.3 mm. Disc 0.2-0.5 mm tall, 0.4-0.8 mm thick, densely short-hirsute. Ovary 0.6-0.9 by 0.5-0.7 mm, fairly densely short-hirsute; styles 0.2-0.3 by 0.05-0.2 mm, glabrous. Fruit ovoid, c. 28 by 24 mm, slightly asymmetrical around apex, surface glabrous with some white warty patches, the persistent styles only visible as minute pro-trusions around apex.
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