Tree to 6 m high, glabrous except inflorescence. Rachis and top of petiole usually with narrow, entire wings; rachis 11–19 cm long; leaflets 8–10, elliptic or ovate-oblong, abruptly acuminate, caudate or acute, entire, 3.5–17 cm long, 1.5–5.5 cm wide, coriaceous, shiny; petiolule 2–4 mm long; petiole 4.5–10 cm long. Inflorescence axillary, pendulous, to 72 cm long; peduncle tomentose; pedicels to 7 mm long, tomentose. Sepals ovate, 8–10 mm long, tomentose. Petals 12–14 mm long, glabrous. Disc hairy. Stamens 5 or 6. Ovary villous; style short. Fruit broadly obovoid-oblong, 1.5–2.5 cm long, slightly compressed, velvety, orange-yellow; valves puberulous inside; sepals persistent. Seeds usually 2 per locule; aril cupular, yellow.
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