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Information Small tree 3.5–12 m. tall with rather nodular gnarled grey branches; bark red, brittle, reticulate, flaking off in patches, with orange layer beneath. Leaves up to ± 23 cm. long; petiole 1–5 cm. long, ferruginous pubescent; leaf rhachis 4–35 cm. long, similarly pubescent; leaflets in 3–8 pairs, often not exactly opposite, ovate, elliptic or almost round, the lower pairs considerably smaller than the upper; upper leaflets 8–15 cm. long, 4–8 cm. wide, obtuse at the apex, truncate to cordate at the base, crenate towards the apex or rarely entire, glabrous to sparsely or densely ferruginous pubescent; lateral nerves in up to 14 pairs, the venation prominently reticulate beneath; petiolules 1–3 mm. long. Male inflorescences precocious, ± sessile clusters, 1.5 cm. wide, forming masses ± 5 cm. wide, peduncles sometimes 0.5–?3 cm. long; female inflorescences tawny felted, with peduncle up to 2 cm. long, lengthening in fruit. Flowers greenish, sweet-scented; sepals 5, 4 mm. long, united for 1 mm. at base; disk cup-shaped, 0.7 mm. high. Stamens and staminodes 5; filaments of stamens 9 mm. long; anthers 1.2 mm. long. Fruit bright orange, ellipsoid, up to 2.6 cm. long, 1.3–1.8 cm. wide, velvety; sepals and style base persistent; stalks 0.3–1.9 cm. long. Fig. 3/1–4.

Information Tree up to 10 m. tall or shrub; bark grey, scaling in large flakes; branchlets tomentellous when young. Leaves up to 15 cm. long; rhachis fulvous-tomentose; petiole up to 6 cm. long, fulvous-tomentose; leaflets 3–5-jugate, subsessile; leaflet-lamina up to 8 × 4 cm., elliptic to oblong-elliptic, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, tomentose when young, later usually pubescent on both surfaces but rarely glabrescent except on some of the nerves below, apex blunt to rounded, margin crenate to crenate-serrate or sometimes almost entire, base rounded to subcordate; lateral nerves 5–8 pairs. Inflorescence a congested fulvous-tomentose subglobose paniculate thyrse c. 2 cm. in diam.; peduncle up to 12–20 mm. long in male plants, fulvous-tomentose. Flowers greenish, sweet-scented; pedicels 2–2·5(4) mm. long, tomentose. Sepals 4–6, 2–2·5 × 1·5 mm., ovate-oblong, tomentose outside, glabrous within, connate at the base. Disk 1·3 mm. in diam., annular. Stamens 4–7; filaments 4 mm. long, glabrous; anthers 0·5–0·8 mm. long. Ovary pubescent to tomentellous; style 1·5–2 mm. long. Fruit orange or yellow, up to 3 × 2 cm., obovoid-ellipsoid to subglobose, tomentose, often beaked by the persistent style. Seed 1·5 × 1 cm., ellipsoid.