Taxonomy

This tree grows up to 15m tall. It is semi-deciduous, has a round crown, with thick and tortuous branches. Its bark is grey, thick, corky and fissured.

Leaves are 5–15 by 2–7cm, opposite, and palmately compound.
There are 5 elliptical leaflets that are coriaceous, covered with an indumentum of squamose trichomes. They have an obtuse apex, entire margin, and rounded base. The petiole is 5–7cm.
Flowers are 8cm long, in groups of 40, tubular-campanulate, yellow, and very showy.
The fruits are capsules, 8–15 by 1.5–2.5cm long and narrowly cylindrical, with a dense indumentum of squamose trichomes.
Seeds are up to 4cm wide, flat, with two opposite membranous wings on each side.
The tree flowers in June–August and fruits in August–September.

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