Trees, 6-15 m high, dbh 18-45 cm, bark rough or smooth, dark grey or (blackish) brown with grey patches, inner bark (chestnut) brown, blaze orange or light brown; wood white or creamish. Branches densely tomentose; flowering twigs 2-4 mm in diam. Leaves 2-4(-6)-jugate; petiole 3-14 cm long; rachis 2.5-21.5 cm long, both flattened above, rounded below, densely tomentose; petiolules 2-15 mm long, densely tomentose. Leaflets elliptic to ovate, (slightly) asymmetric, 7-36 by 3-12 cm, index 1.9-3.7, glossy dark or mid green above, paler and duller below, chartaceous, above glabrous to pilose, midrib (and nerves) glabrous to pilose, below (thinly) pilose, midrib and nerves more densely so; base cuneate to rounded; apex obtuse to rounded or acute or acuminate; margin entire, rarely api-cally dentate; midrib (slightly) prominent above, nerves 10-17 per side, 6-25 mm apart, angle to midrib 45-65°, venation scalariform; domatia small, pocket-like. Inflorescences 2-7.5 cm long, in fruit 2-8.5 cm long; bracts and bracteoles triangular or ovate to narrowly elliptic, 0.6-1.9 by 0.3-1.6 mm, outside appressed-hairy, inside glabrous or appressed-hairy; pedicels 1.7-2.2 mm long. Flower buds subglobular, 1.9 by 1.9 mm. Sepals ovate to elliptic, 1.6-2.5 by 0.6-1.3 mm. Petals cream, 0.8-1.4 by 0.8-1.2 mm, outside shortly appressed-hairy, margin ciliate, inside glabrous, claw 0.4-0.6 mm, auricles woolly. Filaments of stamens 0.5-0.8 mm long; anthers c. 1.2 mm long, glabrous. Pistillode 0.6-1 by 0.7-1 mm. Fruits glossy mid or pale green to reddish, or rose-purple, globular to obovoid, circular or rounded deltoid in cross section, 20-35 by 20-30 mm, wall 4-6.5 mm thick, outside glabrous to velutinous. Seeds ellipsoid to obovoid, 11-13 by 6-8 mm, sarcotesta rounded, covering 1/5-⅓ of the seed.
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