Small tree up to 10(–15) m. Bole up to 30 cm in circumference; unbranched or with a few ascending branches. Bark smooth, pale brown or grey with minute longitudinal cracks; inner bark pale yellowish-brown; sapwood pale brown or pale pinkish-brown; latex white. Twigs stout, densely covered with reddish-brown stellate hairs which have arms up to 1 mm long, with white latex. Leaves imparipinnate, up to 130 cm long and 75 cm wide, usually pale green when dry; petiole up to 25 cm long, petiole, rachis and petiolules with indumentum like the twigs. Leaflets 7–11, 15–45 by 4–14 cm, shortly acuminate at apex, cuneate or rounded at base, with numerous stellate hairs on lower sur-face which sometimes have a few long arms which overlap with adjacent hairs but usu-ally with the arms all short and not overlapping; veins 16–28 on each side of the midrib; petiolules up to 25 mm. Male inflorescence up to 40 cm long and wide. Female inflores-cence up to 10 cm long and wide; peduncle, rachis and branches with indumentum like the twigs. Flowers c. 1.5 mm in diam.; pedicels up to 2 mm. Calyx densely covered with brown stellate scales on the outer surface. Petals 5. Staminal tube about 2/3 the length of the corolla, ellipsoid, 5-lobed, with a few hairs at the base on the inner surface; anthers 5, pale yellow, ovoid, about half the length of the tube and just protruding through the aperture. Infructescence up to 15 cm long and wide, with up to 25 fruits. Fruits 1.5–3 cm long, up to 2.5 cm wide, ellipsoid or subglobose; pericarp yellow or orange brown on the outside, densely covered with reddish-brown stellate hairs with many short arms and yellow on the inside. Locule(s) 1 or 2, each containing 1 seed. Seed reddish-brown, completely surrounded by a translucent, edible, sweet aril; testa reddish-brown.
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A tree. It grows 10-15 m tall. The trunk is 10 cm across. Plants are separately male and female. The fruit is a flattened round shape and yellow to brown. It is 1.5-3 cm long by 2.5 cm wide. There are 2 seeds.
Evergreen forest, riverine forest and primary forest; growing on sandy clay soils; at elevations up to 1,000 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows up to 1,000 m above sea level.
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