Tree to 20 m high and 80 cm in diam. Stipules intrapetiolar, 1.5-2 mm long, deciduous. Leaves (1-or) 2-4-(or 5-)foliolate, shortly petioled; petiole and rachis 1.5-4.5 cm long, glabrous, prolonged beyond the upper petiolule into a short, subulate tip. Leaflets subcoriaceous or coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, ovate to lanceolate, or obovate-elliptic, 7-10.5(-16.5) by 2.5-3.5(-7) cm; apex shortly acuminate or acuminate; base cuneate, obtuse, or rounded, often symmetric; glabrous and often shining above, dull, loosely minutely, appressedly puberulous, usually glaucous beneath; nerves 5-7 per side; petiolules short, 1.5-6 mm, almost glabrous. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, up to 16 cm long, often erect, sometimes nodding, the rachis minutely puberulous; bracts ovate, 1-1.5 mm long, puberulous outside; bracteoles at the upper half of the pedicel, ovate, c. 1 mm long; pedicels 2-5 mm, articulated at the base, minutely puberulous. Flowers thinly, minutely, appressedly puberulous outside. Hypanthium c. 1.5 mm long, striate. Calyx lobes broadly elliptic or suborbicular, 3-4 mm long, puberulous outside, glabrous inside. Stamens (7-)8-10; filaments 6-8 mm; anthers ellipsoid, c. 1 mm long. Pistil stipitate; stipe free, 1-1.5 mm long, glabrous; ovary 2-3 mm long, (3-or) 4-ovuled; style incurved, 3.5-6 mm, glabrous; stigma obscure. Pods elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or broadly elliptic-ovate, 5.5-16.5 by 3.5-5.5 cm, flat, apex acute or obtuse, hardly beaked, acute or rounded at the base, loosely reticulately veined, densely shortly brown hairy, 2-4-seeded. Seeds: young ones suborbicular, flat, 8-12 mm in diam.; ripe ones up to over 5 cm in diam. (fide de Wit I.e.).
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