Tree to 25 m tall, buttressed. Branchlets terete, dark ferruginous to ferruginous-pubescent, glabrescent. Juvenile and coppice leaves mostly bipinnate with some pinnae further divided; petiole 15-20 cm long; lamina to 115 cm long, with margins not undulate, ferruginous-tomentose, glabrescent. Adult leaves simple; petiole 3-8 cm long; lamina elliptic or ±oblong or obovate, 9-14 cm long, slightly discolorous, glossy when fresh, dark ferruginous to ferruginous-tomentose, glabrescent; midrib well-defined; veins lateral. Conflorescence axillary, towards end of branchlets, dark ferruginous to ferruginous-puberulous, glabrescent; peduncles 5.5-9.5 cm long; umbels with up to 20 flowers. Flowers 20-30 mm long, cream, strongly perfumed, ferruginous-pubescent; pedicels 10-17 mm long. Hypogynous gland ±oblong, fused to base of gynophore. Follicles narrowly oblong, 10-13 cm long, glabrous. Seeds not seen.
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