Tree up to 20(–25) m. Bole up to 10 m, up to 60(–90) cm in circumference, with small buttresses. Branches ascending or patent. Bark smooth, pinkish-brown, greyish-green or very pale grey, with orange longitudinal and round lenticels and green longitu-dinal streaks and transverse ridges, inner bark green or yellowish-brown; sapwood pale orange brown or pale yellow; very little white latex. Twigs slender, densely covered with or with numerous pale yellowish-brown stellate hairs or scales. Leaves imparipinnate, up to 40 cm long and 30 cm wide; petiole up to 9 cm, petiole, rachis and petiolules with indumentum like the twigs. Leaflets 3–11, 4.5–22 by 2–9 cm, subcoriaceous, both sur-faces rather shiny when dry, acuminate-caudate at apex, cuneate or rounded at the asym-metrical base, with few to densely covered with pale brown stellate hairs on the midrib below and occasional on the rest of that surface; veins 5–10 on each side of the midrib, reticulation visible or subprominent on upper surface and subprominent on lower sur-face; petiolules up to 12(–20) mm. Inflorescence 10–20 cm long and 9–15 cm wide; peduncle up to 4 cm, peduncle, rachis and branches with surface and with numerous to densely covered with hairs like those on the twigs, the pedicels and calyx dark brown or black when dry and the calyx without or with very few pale brown stellate scales. Flowers up to 2 mm long and 2.5 mm wide; pedicels up to 1.5 mm. Petals 5. Staminal tube about half the length of the corolla, c. 1.3 mm across, depressed-globose with the aperture c. 0.8 mm across; anthers 5, obovoid, about half the length of the tube inserted about half way up the tube and just protruding beyond the aperture. Infructescence with few fruits; peduncle up to 2 cm. Fruits 1–3 cm in diameter, subglobose; the pericarp brown or yellow, either thin, hard and brittle or thick, woody and longitudinally ridged, densely covered with pale yellowish-brown stellate hairs on the outside. Locule(s) 1 or 2, each containing 1 seed, with a translucent gelatinous, white or brown, sweet edible aril.
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A small tree. It grows 7-20 m tall. The trunk is 15 cm across. The leaves are compound. There are 3-5 pairs of leaflets. The leaflets are leathery. They are oblong and taper to the tip. They are shiny on the upper surface. The fruit are reddish and have a covering. The fruit is a round berry. It is 1.5 cm across.
A sub-canopy tree, found in deciduous and evergreen primary forest, secondary forest, swamp forest, riverine forest and in kerangas; on limestone, granite, basalt, sandy loam, clay; at elevations from sea level to 830 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in low altitude forests. It is usually near streams in evergreen forest. In Thailand it grows from sea level to 800 m above sea level.
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