Tree 15–35 m. tall with a broad sometimes buttressed trunk; bole clean up to 18 m., 2 m. girth; bark grey, grey-brown or yellowish, thin, smooth, densely lenticulate, slightly flaking, said to smell of thymol; slash creamy yellow or yellow-brown.. Leaf-rhachis 15–20 cm. long; leaflets in 5–9 pairs, dull green tending to olive when dry, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 5–10.5 cm. long, 1.5–3 cm. wide, tapering to a narrow, usually acuminate tip, glabrous.. Inflorescence-axes overall mid-olive to brown, up to 13 cm. long, densely covered in fasciculate hairs.. Flowers green, tinged pink.. Disk of male flowers very conspicuous, convex, broad, red, drying black.. Fruit reddish outside, bright pink or scarlet inside, 3.5–4 cm. long, 5 cm. wide.. Seeds purplish, 1.4 cm. across, velvety.
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