Large tree up to 35 m, sometimes with buttresses upwards up to 1 m, with an open crown formed by a few ascending branches terminating in up to 40 subcrowns. Bark pale pinkish-brown or greyish-brown, flaking in squarish or long narrow scales 2–3 cm wide; inner bark pale pinkish-brown; sapwood yellowish-brown, pale yellow or red; 1atex white. Twigs stout dark brown, with large leaf scars, densely covered with reddish-brown or dark brown stellate hairs. Leaves imparipinnate, up to 80 cm long and 50 cm wide; petiole up to 20 cm, petiole, rachis and petiolules with bark and indumen-tum like the twigs. Leaflets 15–21, 5–25 by 2–7 cm, dark shiny green above, coriace-ous, lanceolate or ovate, acuminate at apex, rounded or cordate at the asymmetrical base, upper surface pitted, lower surface densely covered with reddish-brown stellate scales which have a darker, depressed centre or peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin, midrib and veins with similar but fewer scales; veins 11–24 on each side of the midrib, midrib and lateral veins prominent and with longitudinal wavy ridges on lower surface; petiolules up to 10(–20) mm. Inflorescence up to 70 cm long and 70 cm wide; peduncle up to 20 cm, peduncle, rachis and branches stout, flattened, longitudinally wrinkled, indumentum like the twigs. Flowers up to 9 mm long and 5 mm wide; pedi-cels up to 4 mm, with indumentum like the twigs. Calyx with indumentum like the twigs. Petals 3, glabrous. Staminal tube ellipsoid, the aperture up to 1.5 mm in diam. and shallowly 3-lobed; anthers 6, about 3/4 length of the tube, narrowly ovoid, usually included but sometimes just protruding through the aperture. Infructescence c. 20 cm long. Fruits c. 6 cm long and 5 cm wide, ellipsoid or obovoid, red; pericarp thick, with indumentum like the twigs. Locules 3, each containing 1 seed. Seeds with a complete red aril; testa brown; cotyledons pale yellow.
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A tree. It grows 35 m tall. It has an open crown. Plants are separately male and female. The leaves are light green and rich brown underneath. The fruit are red and 6-8 cm across.
An emergent or canopy tree in freshwater peat swamp forests; dry heath forests; kerangas; less common in primary lowland and hill forest, secondary forest and along roadsides; growing on granitic sands; at elevations up to 300 metres.
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