Small tree to 10 m high. Branchlets, leaf axes and peduncles usually villous, deep red; young leaves red-furry. Leaf rachis 16–36 cm long [Hyland et al. (2010) report leaves to 80 cm long]; leaflets 5–10 (–13) pairs, narrowly elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate, obtuse at base, truncate, oblique, 10–28 cm long, 3–5 (–7) cm wide, glabrous or puberulous; petiolules 0.8–2 cm long; petiole 10–19 cm long. Inflorescence 6–10 (–15) cm long; branches spike-like; bracts to 3 mm long; flowers sessile. Calyx lobes suborbicular, 3–4 mm long, glabrous, ciliolate. Petals 5, as long as calyx. Disc complete. Fruit transversely ellipsoidal or subglobose, 1-or 2-lobed, 3.5–6 cm long, 4–8 cm wide, pale green, 2-valved; valves slightly fleshy, drying thin, crustaceous, glabrous. Aril orange or red.
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