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| Habit : | Tree buttressed, up to 20 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark pale pinkish-brown, scaly; blaze reddish. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, densely covered with reddish-brown peltate and fimbriate margin scales, lenticellate. |
| Exudates : | Latex white, not profuse. |
| Leaves : | Leaves compound, pinnate, up to 42 cm long and 26 cm wide, alternate, spiral; petiole 15 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, covered with scales, glabrescent; petiolules 0.2-1.2 cm long on lateral leaflets, up to 1.6 cm on terminal leaflet; leaflets (3-) 5-9, laterals usually subopposite, rarely alternate, lamina 4-20.5 x 1-7 cm, broadly elliptic, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base cuneate, coriaceous, margin recurved, young leaves completely covered with peltate_scales, midrib and nerves with peltate_scales on both sides, scarcely peltate_scaly beneath when mature; secondary_nerves 7-10 pairs, not prominent; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual; inflorescence panicle, densely lepidote_scaly; male inflorescence 9-26 cm long; female inflorescence 5.5 cm long. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, 4 cm long, obovoid or subglobose, apiculate, reddish, 2 locular; seeds 1. |