Small tree 4–12(–30) m. Bole up to c. 22 cm in diam. Bark greenish-brown, greyish-brown or reddish-brown, flaking in small scales, with scattered small black lenticels or longitudinal lines of reddish-brown lenticels; middle bark red or white, fibrous; inner bark pink or white, pale brown or white, fibrous; sapwood yellowish-brown, pink or white; either with no exudate or with some white latex. Twigs with numerous or den-sely covered with pale brown or reddish-brown peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin, usually interspersed with very dark purplish-brown or blackish-brown peltate scales. Leaves 21–65(–95) cm long, 16–50 cm wide; petiole 6–17.5(–29) cm, petiole, rachis and petiolules with scales like those on the twigs. Leaflets (3–)5–9, 7–26(–45) by 5–13.5(–21) cm, pale bluish-green or yellowish-green when dry, apex acuminate, rounded or cuneate at the slightly asymmetrical base; veins 8–20 on each side of the midrib, reticulation just visible, with few to numerous scales like those on the twigs on the midrib and veins and sometimes few on the lower surface, occasionally interspersed with stellate hairs, with few to numerous dark or pale reddish-brown pits on the midrib and lower surface; petiolules (5–)10–15(–100) mm. Inflorescence 7–28 cm long, 2–24 cm wide, densely covered with reddish-brown stellate scales; sessile or with a short pe-duncle up to 5 mm, peduncle, rachis and branches with few to numerous peltate scales like those on the twigs, the distal branches and petiolules densely covered with stellate scales or hairs. Flowers 1–3 mm long and wide; pedicels 0.5–1 mm; with numerous reddish-brown stellate scales on the outer surface. Petals 5. Staminal tube less than half the length of the corolla, shallowly cup-shaped with the apical margin incurved and shallowly 5–lobed; anthers c. 0.2 mm long and wide, ovoid, with a pale margin, inserted just below and protruding through the aperture of the tube, pointing towards the centre of the flower. Infructescence 7–15 cm long, 3.5–10 cm wide; sessile or with a short peduncle up to 15 mm. Fruits 2–2.5 cm long, 1.5–2 cm in diam., indehiscent, ellipsoid or sub-globose, red, yellow or orange, the pericarp thin, soft, with numerous or densely covered with stellate scales, glabrescent. Locules 2, each containing 0 or 1 seed. Seed complete-ly surrounded by an orange or yellow, translucent aril; testa brown; cotyledons green.
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Small tree to 15 m tall, occasionally to 30 m, sometimes with buttresses. Indumentum of pale brown or reddish brown peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin, usually interspersed with very dark purplish brown or blackish brown peltate scales, dense on twigs, petioles, rachis and petiolules, midrib and veins on lower leaflet surface; midrib and veins below sometimes with few stellate hairs interspersed with the scales; inflorescences, calyces and infructescences densely covered with reddish brown stellate scales. Leaves 13–65 cm long. Leaflets (3) 5–9, 7–26 cm long, 3–13.5 cm wide, with numerous shallow reddish brown pits on lower surface; veins 8–14 pairs. Inflorescence 3–28 cm long. Flowers subglobose, to 3 mm diam., smelling of citronella. Petals 5, yellow or white. Staminal tube shallowly cup-shaped, c. 1 mm long, c. 2 mm wide, with a wide aperture; anthers 5, protruding and pointing towards centre of flower. Infructescence 3–15 cm long. Fruit indehiscent, ellipsoid or subglobose, 1.5–2.8 cm long, 1.5–2.1 cm diam., red or orange, with few scales. Locules 2, each with 1 or 2 seeds. Seeds 1.5 cm long, enclosed in a gelatinous orange aril.
Grows on sand, grey sandy loam and perennially wet sandy organic soil, latosols derived from laterised basalt, basaltic krasnozems, alluvial soils and soils derived from metamorphic rock or granite, brown clay. Found in primary and secondary rainforest, coastal riverine rainforest, on perennial springs at the edge of dense monsoon forest and in semi-evergreen mesophyll vine forest, sometimes with sclerophyll emergents such as Acaciapolystachya or A. aulococarpa.
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Riverine forests; more open, secondary forest; swamps; alluvial flats; by beaches and along paths; in complex, mesophyll vine-forest; growing on limestone and sandy clay with granite; at elevations up to 3,800 metres.
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