Pachycaul treelet 2–6 m; bole 2–10 cm diam., often unbranched. Leafy shoots 10–25 mm diam., lenticellate. Leaves 50–110 cm, 4–6-jugate; glabrous to rarely leaflets finely puberulous abaxially; petiole 10–25 cm, 6–8 mm diam., ± lenticellate, terete, greatly swollen and flattened adaxially at base. Leaflets 8–30 by 3–10 cm, elliptic to oblanceolate-oblong, subcoriaceous, subbullate, bases attenuate, subequal, apices shortly cuspidate; petiolules 10–15 mm, the apical one to 60 mm, swollen; costae 15–20 on each side in largest leaflets, spreading, conspicuously looped well clear of margin. Inflorescences to 110 cm in female, 50 cm in male where branches to 15 cm, subsquarrose; axes finely adpressed pubescent; bracteoles c. 1 mm long, triangular pedicels c. 1 mm long, stout. Flowers c. 4 mm diam. Calyx lobes c. 2.5 mm diam., subrotund, ± pubescent without, glabrous within, reddish margin ciliolate, erose. Petals c. 4 mm diam., subrotund, ± pu-berulous without, glabrous within, cream or pinkish. Staminal tube with small pore; anthers 3, c. 3 mm long, boat-shaped, shortly apiculate, glabrous. Capsules borne to-wards tip of axis, 2–4 cm diam., glabrous, red, white within. Seeds 1–3, plano-convex.
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