Tree or treelet 3–18(–40, De Vogel) m; bole to 10 m, buttressed to 60 cm. Bark greenish grey; inner bark pale fawn or pinkish; sapwood pale cream. Leafy twigs 2.5–6 mm diam., deciduously tawny pubescent to subglabrous. Leaves to 45 cm and to 9-jugate; petiole 2–10 cm, terete, minutely pubescent. Leaflets to 16.5(–26.5) by 6(–9) cm, elliptic to ovate-oblong, dark green adaxially, paler abaxially, glabrous or sparsely pubescent on veins, bases ± asymmetric, acute to obtuse, apices acuminate to acutely cuspidate, costae 8–16 on each side; petiolules to 8 mm long. Inflorescence spiciform to thyrsoid, to 63 cm, axillary to supra-axillary, sometimes in axils of unexpanded leaves; axis finely velvety puberulous; flowers pedicellate, ± fragrant. Calyx c. 4 mm long, ± sparsely puberulous without, margin truncate to obscurely or irregularly lobed. Petals (4 or) 5, 8–12(–16) by 2 mm, cream, densely fulvescent-hirsute without, valvate, apex acute. Staminal tube white, ± densely pilose, rarely subglabrous within, pubescent without; margin 5-lobed, lobes laciniate; anthers 5 (6), 3 mm long, glabrous. Ovary 2-locular, shortly stipitate, hirsute; style glabrous to pubescent. Infructescence to 30 em. Capsule to 21 mm diam., globose or beaked, dull red, minutely rusty tomentose; per carp with white latex. Seeds 2, to 15 mm diam., flattened, sarcotestal.
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A tree. It grows 40 m tall. The trunk is 60 cm across. It can have buttresses 60 cm tall. The flowers are cream coloured and have a scent. The fruit are round and 2.1 cm across.
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