Tree to 20 m tall and 30 cm in diam. Leaves 2-or 3-jugate, subsessile or shortly petioled, petiole and rachis 3-16 cm long. Leaflets chartaceous, lanceolate, 5.5-35 by 2-11 cm, apex acuminate rarely caudate; base cuneate to attenuate, sometimes obtuse, symmetric; glabrous; midrib elevated above, prominent beneath; nerves 9-11 per side; petiolules 2-10 mm. Inflorescences 5-20 cm wide, puberulent, main branches 7-14 cm long; bracts and bracteoles ovate or broadly elliptic, 5-10 by 4-8 mm, glabrous, spreading, persistent; pedicels 22-30 mm, the length between bracteoles and flower 5-11 mm. Flowers orange yellow or orange, turning to deep crimson, sweet scented, articulated near the base, glabrous outside. Hypanthium (3 — )5.5 — 7 mm long, c. 2 mm wide at the throat, hairy at the upper half inside. Calyx lobes ovate, elliptic, oblong, or obovate, (3 — )5 — 10 by (2-)4-5.5 mm. Stamens 4, rarely 3; staminodes absent; filaments 15-25 mm, glabrous; anthers broadly ovoid, c. 0.75 mm long. Pistil stipitate, free part of stipe 1.5-5 mm, hairy; ovary 2-4 mm long, 2-ovuled; style 8-12 mm; stigma minute, round. Pods red, suborbicular, broadly ovoid or obovoid, or oblong, 4-8 by 3-4 cm, c. 0.5 cm thick, thinly woody, 1-or 2-seeded, with obliquely apiculate apex and rounded base. Seeds (young) ovoid, c. 1.5 by 1 cm.
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