Tree, up to 20 m high, dbh up to 60 cm. Branchlets terete, 6 mm in diam., slightly ribbed, greyish to yellowish brown, when young rather densely minutely hairy, glabrescent. Leaves (l-)2(-3)-ju-gate; petiole slightly flattened above, rounded be-neath, swollen at base, 5-9 cm long; petiolules deeply sulcate above, slightly swollen, 3-5(-9) mm. Leaflets mostly opposite, oblong-ovate to oblong to lanceolate, 10-20 by 4-7.5 cm, chartaceous, brownish to greenish above, greenish beneath, glandular-pitted warts very scarce; base equal-sided, obtuse to acute; apex slightly tapering acuminate, acute to obtuse; nerves 1-3 cm apart, angle to midrib 45-80°, usually slightly curved, looped and joined at some distance from the margin, sometimes straight and not joined but for the few upper ones, some intercalary veins strongly developed, veins and veinlets finely reticulate. Inflorescences up to 45 cm long, ferrugineous to fulvous velvety, glabrescent; pedicels 2-4 mm long, deeply 3-grooved. Sepals in vivo bright green, outside fulvous-sericeous, margin glandular-ciliolate, inside glabrous, outer 2 oblong-ovate, 2.8 by 2 mm, inner 3 broadly obovate, 3.5 by 2.5 mm. Petals obo-vate-cuneate, 4.5 by 2.8 mm, white, hardly clawed, outside in the basal half densely appressed long-hairy, the margin except for the upper ⅓ long-ciliate; scale erect, slightly more than half as long as the petal, laterally partly adnate to its margin, the free part deltoid to bilobed, densely ciliate. Disc glabrous. Stamens slightly exserted; filaments 3.5 mm, densely long-hairy; anthers ovate, apiculate, 1 mm, glabrous. Ovary 1.5 mm, style conical, 1 mm, stigma faintly 3-lobed. Fruits slightly 3-lobed, mostly only 1 lobe developed, this globular, c. 2.5 cm in diam., densely ferrugineous (when fresh orange to brown) velvety; pericarp in vivo 3 mm thick, orange. Seeds slightly flattened ellipsoid, 1.8 by 1.2 by 1 cm, testa shining, papery, hilum elliptic, 5 by 2 mm.
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