Tree to 30 m, 40 cm diam. Bole fluted at base. Bark smooth, yellowish; inner bark yellowish. Leafy twigs soon glabrous, adpressed pilose at apices. Leaves 15–20 cm long; petiole 3–4.5 cm long, very sparsely and minutely puberulous. Leaflets 1–3 on each side, the leaves mostly 3-or 5-foliolate, 6.5–11 by 3–5 cm, oblong-elliptic, char-taceous to subcoriaceous, glabrous except for minutely puberulent abaxial surface of lamina and especially midribs and petiolules; apex acuminate, acumen to 9 mm, base acute to cuneate; major veins 7–10 on each side, arcuate; secondary veins less promi-nent; petiolule c. 5 mm, somewhat channelled when dry, weakly swollen at base. Inflorescences spikes 11–18 cm long, axillary to slightly supra-axillary; rachis glabrous; bracts c. 0–5 mm long, triangular, pubescent. Calyx lobes c. 1 mm long, orbicular, glabrous, margin weakly ciliate. Petals c. 3.5 mm long, ovate. Fruits to 3 cm diam., globose, weakly dimpled at apex, obscurely 5-ribbed, velutinous, yellow. Seeds (fide Kostermans) 1–3 developing, 1.5–2.5 cm long, 1.5–2 cm diam.
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A tree. The leaflets are narrowly oval. The fruit are velvety and 3 cm across. The layer around the seeds is a dirty white.
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