Trees 15-20 m high, dbh 20-38 cm. Indumentum on young parts and inflorescences dense, yellowish, mixed with very small reddish glands. Flowering twigs terete, c. 2 mm in diam., striate, strigose, when young also with reddish glands. Leaves 4-7-jugate; petiole 3-6 cm long, flattened above, rounded below, towards the apex terete; rachis 5-16 cm long, terete; petiole and rachis striate, strigose; petiolules 2-5 mm long, strigose. Leaflets alternate, elliptic to obovate, asymmetric, acroscopic side broader, 3.5-11.5 by 1.5-3.5 cm, index 2-4, chartaceous, above almost glabrous, midrib and nerves puberulous, below thinly to densely sericeous, especially when young with reddish glands; base cunéate to rounded; apex acute to acuminate, acumen 6-13 mm long, rounded or mucronate; margin entire; midrib above prominent, nerves 7-13 per side, 4-13 mm apart, angle to midrib 45-60°. Inflorescences axillary or pseudoterminal, 5-19.5 cm long, with long patent branches, laxly flowered; cymules dichasial, several-flowered; bracts and bracteoles not persisting; pedicels 3-3.6 mm long, articulated ± halfway. Flower buds dark red. Sepals persisting, suborbicular, outside appressed-hairy except rim, margin ciliate and with reddish glands, inside with few hairs at the base, outer 2.2-2.3 by 1.3-2.4 mm, scarious rim narrow, inner 2.6-3 by 2-2.4 mm, scarious rim wide. Petals irregular-ovate to almost orbicular, dentate, 1.1-1.7 by 1.1-1.2 mm, outside appressed-hairy, inside glabrous; scales 2, not crested or with fingerlike crests, 0.7-1 mm long, long-woolly at recurved apex. Disc glabrous. Stamens 9, not exserted; filaments c. 1.2 mm long, patently hairy; anthers c. 1 4 mm long, glabrous. Ovary 2-celled, outside hairy; style 2-2.4 mm long; stigma 0.8-1 mm long, 2-lined; pistillode hairy. Young fruits reddish yellow, cordate, with a 3.5 mm long stipe, outside smooth, velutinous, inside villose. Arillode completely covering young seed.
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