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A shrub, or tree up to 20 m tall, with a rounded or spreading crown, and with a trunk up to c. 1 m d.b.h.Bark pale grey, whitish or light brown, smooth at first, later becoming reticulate and flaking, and grey-green beneath.Wood white, very soft.Twigs thick, exuding white gum; twigs, petioles and inflorescence axes ferrugineous stellate-pubescent at first, later scurfily stellate-pulverulent.Leaves digitately compound, (3)5–7-foliolate.Stipules 3–5 × 2–3 mm.Petioles 6–25 cm long; glands 2–4, usually at the petiole apex, prominent, green; petiolules 0.5–1.5 cm long.Leaflets elliptic-ovate to oblanceolate, rarely 3-lobed; median leaflet 5–18 × 2–9 cm, the lateral leaflets slightly smaller; all leaflets obtuse or acute and shortly acuminate at the apex, usually somewhat asymmetrically rounded-cuneate at the base, entire or subentire, edged with marginal dark green gland dots on upper or lower surfaces, densely ferrugineous or fulvous stellate-pubescent on upper surface, later glabrescent, paler or whitish stellate-tomentose beneath; lateral nerves in 6–16 pairs. Male inflorescences 10–22 × 4–8 cm; bracts 3–10 mm long.Male flowers: pedicels 2–5 mm long; calyx lobes 5 × 2.5–3 mm, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, stellate-pubescent without and within; petals 6–7 × 2–3 mm, elliptic-oblong, emarginate-subtruncate at the apex, rounded at the base, glabrous except within at the base, pale lemon-yellow to whitish, drying dark brown; disk glands c. 1 × 1 mm; stamens c. 7 mm long, anthers 0.75 × 0.5 mm.Female inflorescences 5–6 × 2–3 cm; bracts as in the male.Female flowers: pedicels 7–10 mm, stouter than in the male flowers; calyx lobes 8–9 × 5–6 mm, broadly ovate, subacute or obtuse, indumented as in the male; petals 9 × 4 mm, glabrous, otherwise more or less as in the male; disk 4 mm in diameter; ovary 7 × 5 × 3 mm, densely stellate-pubescent; styles 5 mm long.Fruit 3–5 × 2–3.5 cm when dried, up to 7 × 5 cm when fresh, densely stellate-tomentose at first, later glabrescent, green, becoming pale yellow; exopcarp thin, mesocarp 3–4 mm thick, endocarp 4–5 mm thick.Seeds 1.8–2.5 × 1.6–2 cm, compressed-ellipsoid.