Tree to 8 m; bole to 7 cm diam., sparsely branched. Bark greyish brown, scarcely cracking, cicatrose; inner bark claret. Leafy twigs to 4 mm diam. Leaves to 2 m long and to 28-jugate; petiole 5–10 cm, to 3.5(–6.5) mm diam., terete, with cicatrices of spent inflorescences. Leaflets 5–14.5(–22) by 3.2–5.5 (–7) cm, ovate to lanceolate or elliptic, pubescent on veins adaxially and abaxially, where sometimes whole surface thus, bases cuneate, apices acuminate; costae c. 14 on each side, venation weakly sunken adaxially, prominent abaxially; petiolules to 6 mm long. Inflorescences to 5 cm long, borne on concurrently flushing rachis, Cymbopogon-scented. Calyx c. 3.5 mm long, cupulate, sericeous, margin ± entire. Petals (3 or) 4, to 10 by 2 mm, creamy green, sparsely hairy without. Staminal tube c. 9 mm long, subglabrous or with retrorse hairs within except at top and bottom, margin obscurely lobed; anthers (4–) 6 or 7, locellate, inserted up to 3 mm within tube. Ovary 3-or 4-locular; style to 8 mm long, glabrous or with ascending hairs throughout most of its length. Capsule to 4 cm long, 2.5 cm diam., subovovoid to ellipsoid. Seeds unknown.
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