Tree up to 30 m high, dbh up to 100 cm; with buttresses. Twigs terete, when young ± angular, 4-7 mm in diam., grey to blackish, brown tomentellous, early glabrescent. Leaves 3-5-jugate; petiole terete, flattened to the base, 5-11 cm long by 1.5-2.5 mm broad; petiolules above slightly grooved, 5-15 mm long Leaflets opposite to alternate, ovate, 5.5-14 by 2-5.25 cm, index 2-5, falcate, thin-to stiff-per-gamentaceous, glabrous, often with glands in the nerve axils (and in the branching of the veins) beneath; base oblique (or symmetrical), acute (to obtuse), attenuate; apex acute (to tapering into an acute acumen); nerves 0.75-1.5 cm apart, widely spreading, usually strongly curved, ending free (or ± looped and joined); reticulation coarse, above more prominent than beneath. Inflorescences pseu-doterminal, up to 12 cm long, sparsely branched, fulvous puberulous. Sepals broad-ovate, outside and inside sparsely sericeous. Petals glabrous, inside with 2 scales. Stamens 8; anthers ciliate. Pistil 3-Jocular, densely brownish hairy. Fruits ellipsoid to obovoid, not or shortly stipitate, not apicu-late, 4.5-6 by c. 4 cm, light brown tomentellous, ± glabrescent; wall c. 1 cm thick, ± fleshy, endocarp wrinkled, ferrugineous tomentose. Seeds unknown.
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