Tree up to 15 m by c. 25 cm; branchlets stoutish, rufous-puberulous at the tips, soon glabrescent. Simple leaves mostly oblanceolate, blunt to rounded at the apex, cuneate towards the base, subcoriaceous, glabrous, (15-)20-30(-45) by (5-) 7-12 cm; nerves 6-9(-10-12) pairs, steeply ascending, anastomosing towards the edge; petiole striate, glabrous, dark when dry, (0-1½-)2-4(-5½) cm by 1.5-2.5 mm. Leaves tripartite to pinnatisect occurring in juvenile trees, up to c. 1 by 0.6 m, lobes 1-5 pairs, oblong or ovate, sinuses ± rounded at c. 2.5 cm distance from the midrib, glabrous; petiole very stout, (0-)0.5-2(-5) cm. Racemes (female unknown) mostly cauliflorous, almost always on trees with simple leaves, solitary or 2-3 fascicled, (15-)30-40 cm, laxly appressed-ferrugineous-pilose all over; rhachis c. 1.5 mm diam. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, minute. Pedicels 3-4 mm, free or connate up to halfway. Perianth 8-10 mm, tube 0.6 mm diam., limb clavate 1.5 mm diam. Anthers 3 mm. Disk glands bluntly broad-triangular, free. Ovary glabrous or with some scattered hairs. Fruit ellipsoid, compressed, c. 6.5 by 4.5 cm, 2.5 cm thick; exocarp coriaceous, rather thin; mesocarp 3 mm; endocarp hard, woody, irregularly reticulate-lacunose, 2-3 mm, the lacunae perforated. Seed not seen.
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