Tree 12-18 m tall, branching on upper portion to produce a dense crown; trunk to 23 cm in diam.; bark grayish, thin, smooth, peeling off in irregular plates, inner bark reddish. Young growth conspicuously fulvo-tomentose, intermixed with numerous glandular hairs. Twigs nearly terete, glabrescent with age. Leaves paripinnate, spirally arranged on distal portion of stem(s); petiole (5.5) 8-19 cm long, enlarged at the base; rachis (5.5) 13-40 cm long, terete, or slightly angled distally, slightly striate, minutely hirsute, sometimes with scattered setaceous or glandular hairs; petiolules pulvinate, 3-5 mm long, minutely hirsute with scattered glandular hairs; leaflets (6) 10-14, opposite to alternate, chartaceous, oblong-elliptic, 6-23.5 × 2-5.7(8.5) cm, both surfaces glabrous, except for the minutely pubescent (sometimes with glandular hairs) midvein, the abaxial surface sparsely minutely hispidulous, the apex acuminate, the base obtuse-acute, asymmetrical, venation brochidodromus, flattened or slightly impressed adaxially, prominent abaxially. Thyrses panicle-shaped, 6-31 cm long, distal or axillary on distal portion of branches; axes pubescent to sericeous-tomentose, with scattered to numerous glandular hairs; bracts early deciduous, subulate, ca. 5 mm long, with same indument as the axes; bracteoles persistent, similar to the bracts but smaller; dichasia compound, sessile; pedicels 1-1.2 mm long, appressed-pubescent, articulate at the base. Calyx nearly conical 2.5-3.5 mm long, tomentose, with scattered glandular hairs, the sepals 1-2.2 mm long, oblong or ovate-deltate, obtuse at apex; petals whitish, reflexed at anthesis, 5.5-6 mm long, nearly elliptic to obovate, the abaxial surface glabrous, the adaxial surface with scattered glandular, papilliform hairs, ciliate on margins, the apex rounded, the base attenuate; appendages as long as the petals, deltate, the abaxial surface glabrous with a few glandular hairs, the adaxial surface hirsute on the upper half; disc annular, 5-lobed, ca. 1 mm tall, minutely hirsute; stamens 8, the filaments glabrous, of same length, ca. 4 mm long, the anthers oblong, ca. 1.2 mm long, apiculate at apex; ovary conical, sericeous-tomentose, the stigma cylindric-trigonous, papillate, ca. 1 mm long. Fruit yellow to orange-yellow at maturity, globose-ovoid or obovoid, apiculate, ca. 2 cm long, densely hirsutulose, the pericarp woody, ca. 3 mm thick. Seed one per fruit, nearly globose, ca. 1.5 cm long, with a thin, fleshy, orange-yellow testa.
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A tree. It grows 12-18 m tall. It has a dense crown. The trunk is 23 cm across. The bark is thin and grey and peels off. Young growth is hairy. The leaves are arranged in spirals towards the ends of the stems. The leaves have leaflets along the stalk. There are 10-14 leaflets and they are 6-23 cm long by 2-6 cm wide. The fruit is orange to yellow when ripe. It is round to oval and 2 cm long. There is one seed in the fruit. There is a thin orange fleshy layer around the seed.
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