Tree to 10 m high, monoecious or dioecious; glabrous except hairy shoots and inflorescence. Leaf rachis 21–26 cm long; leaflets 8–12, alternate; lamina elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse to acute, entire, obtuse at base, 8.5–20.5 cm long, 3.5–6.5 cm wide; lateral veins 8–14 pairs, strongly raised below, with minute domatia in axils; petiolules 0.5–1.5 cm long; petiole 6.5–13.5 cm long. Panicles axillary, 10–36 cm long; pedicels 1.5–2 mm long. Calyx c. 1.5 mm long, puberulent. Petals ovate, shortly clawed, c. 1.5 mm long. Filaments 2–3 mm long, pilose. Fruit sessile or on short stipe, globose or broadly obovoid, 2–3 cm long, irregularly 2-lobed or not lobed, irregularly dehiscent, drying black, shiny, glabrous. Seed large, enclosed in translucent acidic orange-yellow aril.
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