Tree up to 40 m, dbh up to 1.50 m, with steep buttresses up to 3 m high. Young parts very early glabrescent. Leaves 6-8-jugate; axial parts (sub)glnbrous; pseudo-stipules ± elliptic, 0.6-1 by 0.2-0.5 cm, index 2-3, strongly falcate, the basi-scopic side fully suppressed, ± caducous, otherwise as the leaflets; petiolules 1.5-2 mm long. Leaflets ± elliptic, 7.5-15 by 2.8-5.5 cm, index 2.5-4, middle ones hardly to distinctly falcate, charta-ceous, glabrous but for a few scattered hairs on the midrib beneath, glandless or exceptionally with a gland in the axils of 1 or 2 nerves; margin entire; apex gradually to rather abruptly acuminate, acumen up to 1 cm long, acute; nerves 0.5-1 cm apart, all alike, gradually bending towards the margin and more or less distinctly looped and joined, above distinctly prominulous; venation prominent at both sides. Inflorescences erect, 17-25 cm long, (sub)glabrous; bracts present under all flowers; pedicels c. 2 mm long, rather slender, articulated ¼-⅓ above the base. Calyx 2.5 mm in diam., sepals connate for 15-20%, lobes 1.5 by 0.75 mm, both sides glabrous. Petals shorter than the calyx, 0.65 by 0.8-1 mm, outside glabrous. Stamens: filaments 2.2 mm long, very sparsely hairy at base; anthers 0.75 mm long. Pistil: style 3.5 mm long. Fruits (ripe?) c. 2 by 2 cm. Seeds not observed.
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