Tree to 20 m high; glabrous except puberulous young parts and dark-brown velvety inflorescences. Leaf rachis 5.5–12 cm long; leaflets 2–10, elliptic-oblong to obovate, obtuse or retuse, entire, 5.5–16 cm long, 2.5–5.5 cm wide, coriaceous; petiolule 3–6 mm long; petiole 3.5–8 cm long. Panicles axillary or terminal, densely flowered, 14–30 cm long; bracts subulate, to 6 mm long; pedicels to 4 mm long. Sepals obovate-elliptic, 6–8 mm long, velvety. Petals reflexed at apex, 8–12 mm long, glabrous. Disc minute, pubescent. Stamens 5. Ovary velvety; style short. Fruit transversely ellipsoidal or depressed obovoid, 1.3–1.5 cm long, yellow; lobes subglobose, divaricate, inflated, pubescent or puberulent; valves woolly inside; sepals persistent. Seed 1 per locule, nearly enclosed in red aril.
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