Tree to 25 m high. Young parts, branchlets, leaf axes and peduncles minutely puberulous to glabrous; branchlets and petioles lenticellate. Leaf rachis 6.5–14 cm long; leaflets 8–16, rarely to 20; lamina narrowly oblong-elliptic or oblong-ovate, acuminate to obtuse, remotely crenate-serrulate or subentire, obtuse or acute and slightly decurrent at base, 4.5–9 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide, glabrous; domatia present; petiolule 4–10 mm long; petiole 3.5–5.5 cm long. Panicles 6.5–10 cm long; pedicels 2–4 mm long. Calyx lobes 2.5–4 mm long, puberulous or glabrous. Petals ovate, 2 mm long; scales shorter. Disc tomentose. Fruit shortly stipitate, subglobose, apiculate, 1–1.3 cm long and wide, glabrescent; valves thin, villous inside. Aril orange. [Description to be revised-includes C. baileyana]
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