Tree, up to 24 m high, dbh up to 22.5 cm. Young parts, leaf axes, inflorescences, and infructescenc-es sparsely to moderately densely short hirsute. Twigs 9-15 mm thick. Leaves up to 1 m long, 5-9-jugate; petiole 4-23 cm long; petiolules 0-3 mm long. Leaflets elliptic, 6-31 by 3-13 cm, index 1.8-3.4, papyraceous to thin-pergamentaceous; base symmetrical (or ± oblique), acute to rounded (to subcordate); apex (rounded and hardly apiculate to) tapering acuminate, acumen short to long, acute to rounded; above densely puberulous on the midrib, more sparsely so on the nerves (to very sparsely all over), beneath thin puberulous on midrib and nerves (and on veins); midrib above slightly raised; nerves 0.5-2.3 cm apart, sunken above; intersecondary nerves many and often strongly developed, making the nervation sometimes irregular; veins hardly raised at both sides. Inflorescences axillary, pendulous, 30-60 cm long, simple; pedicels in fruit 4-6 mm long. Flowers fragrant. Sepals broad-ovate, 4.5-6.5 by 4.2-4.5 mm, persistent. Petals oblan-ceolate, 7-9 by 2.5-3.5 mm, white (to cream or yellowish green), (outside basally slightly hairy). Disc uninterrupted, 5-lobed, velvety. Stamens 5; filaments 3-5.5 mm long; anthers 2.5-3 mm long. Pistil 2-locular; style 3.5-4 mm long; ovules 1 per locule. Fruits transversely flattened broad-ellipsoid, c. 2 by 3-3.5 cm; base slightly cordate to truncate, abruptly narrowed into a 1-2 mm long stipe; apex (slightly) emarginate; wall woody, outside prominently reticulate or pustulate, orange red, sparsely to moderately densely hairy, inside with a rather dense indumentum of longer tufted hairs.
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