Tree to 10(–13.5) m; bole to 15 cm diam. Bark reddish; inner bark orangeish-mottled, soft, with watery latex; sapwood orange. Leafy twigs 5–10 mm diam., greyish. Leaves 30–80 cm, (3–)6–8-jugate; petiole 15–18 cm, c. 5 mm diam., terete, puberulous, flattened to grooved or hollowed adaxially at base, the groove adpressed fulvous pubescent. Leaflets 7–25 by 4–7.5 cm, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate, coriaceous and particularly at altitude, glabrous, bases acute to attenuate, weakly asymmet-ric, apices acute to cuspidate or acuminate, the acumen to 15 mm long, costae 9–12 on each side, conspicuously looped well clear of margin, often prominent abaxially, terti-ary venation reticulate; petiolules 15–30 mm, the terminal one to 45 mm, swollen at base. Inflorescences to 65 cm, the male with subsquarrose branches to 15 cm, strongly supra-axillary; axes puberulous; bracteoles c. 0.5 mm, scale-like; pedicels 0–1 mm in female, 3–6 mm in male. Flowers c. 5–7 mm diam. Calyx lobes 4–5 mm diam., sub-rotund to erose, pubescent without, pinkish, margin glandular-ciliate. Petals c. 5–7 mm long, subrotund, glabrous, creamy-white or pinkish. Staminal tube with small pore; anthers 6, c. 3 mm long, narrowly oblong, glabrous. Capsules borne towards tip of axis, 3–4 cm diam., glabrous, pink to dark red, white within. Seeds 1–3, c. 18 by 12 mm, plano-convex, covered with vermilion aril; testa dark brown to black.
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A small tree. It grows 13 m tall. The leaves are alternate and compound. The flowers are 3 mm across. They are cream coloured and in groups. The fruit are 2.5 cm across. They are red capsules. The seeds have a bright red fleshy layer or aril.
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