Tree, up to 18 m high, dbh up to 48 cm. Indumentum dense, short, yellowish brown, and hirsute. Twigs 4-10 mm thick, sometimes hardly more than the terminal bud hairy. Leaves (2-to) 3-5-jugate; petiole 4-14 cm long; petiolules 3-8(-10) mm long; axes fairly densely hairy, glabrescent. Leaflets ovate to elliptic, 4.75-27 by 2.5-8.5 cm, index 2-4.5, chartaceous to papyraceous; base oblique to symmetrical, acute to (lower) obtuse to rounded, attenuate; apex gradually acuminate, acumen long, and acute (or short and rounded); above (glabrous to) sparsely hairy on midrib (and nerves), beneath subglabrous to thinly hairy (to densely tomentel-lous) all over, most densely on midrib and nerves; midrib above slightly raised to slightly sunken; nerves 1-2.5 cm apart, slightly raised above; intersecondary nerves few and usually feeble. Inflorescences axillary, solitary, pendulous, 10-37(-70) cm long, subspicate to thyrsoid; pedicels in fruit 5-10 mm long. Sepals ovate, 6-8 by 5-6 mm, persistent in fruit. Petals glabrous. Disc uninterrupted, puberulous. Stamens 5. Pistil 2-locular; ovules 1 or 2 per locule. Fruits transversely broad-ellipsoid, kidney-shaped, broad-ovoid, or subglobular, up to 3 by 4.5 cm; base obtuse or rounded, stipe c. 2.5 mm long; apex rounded or sub-emarginate; wall woody, 1-1.5 mm thick, outside orange, coarsely granulate (to with rather big pustules), subglabrous, inside glabrous.
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