Trees to 7 m tall. Branchlets brown, with longitudinal stripes, densely pubescent; apical buds spikelike or stiletto-shaped. Leaves in spirals, even-pinnate; petiole and rachis 15-30 cm, ribbed, pubescent; leaflets 5 or 6, alternate; petiolules 2-8 mm, densely puberulent; leaflet blades ovate to elliptic, 10-13 × 4-5 cm for basal ones and 14-20 × 6-7 cm for apical ones, membranous, both surfaces glabrous, abaxially with fine mamillate tubercles, secondary veins 8-12 each side of midvein and abaxially ± prominent, base nearly rounded to broadly cuneate, apex acuminate. Thyrses axillary, racemose, 1-3 cm, pulverulent yellow pubescent, few flowered. Pedicel 2-3 mm, pulverulent pubescent; bracteoles small, pulverulent pubescent. Calyx cup-shaped, almost truncate, outside pulverulent pubescent. Petals 4, 5-6 mm, both surfaces pulverulent pubescent. Staminal tube ca. 4 × 3 mm, outside pulverulent pubescent, inside glabrous, apical margin 8-lobed; anthers 8, alternate with tube lobes, oblong. Disk annular, ca. 1 mm high, glabrous, margin undulate. Ovary and style covered with long thick trichomes; stigma subcapitate, pulverulent pubescent. Fruit often solitary, young fruit yellowish green, globular-pyriform, carpopodium stout, base of fruit with persistent calyx. Fl. Mar-Jul.
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