Usually a small tree, sometimes up to 15(–23) m. Bole up to 9 m, up to 20 cm in diam.; branches ascending or patent. Outer bark pale reddish-brown or grey with green patches, with longitudinal cracks and lenticels in longitudinal rows; inner bark yellow, fibrous or granular; sap wood pale brown or pinkish-brown; latex white. Twigs slender, densely covered with reddish-brown or sometimes orange-brown stellate hairs which have arms up to 1 mm long. Leaves imparipinnate, 13–60 cm long, 13–50 cm wide; petiole up to 13 cm long, petiole, rachis and petiolules with indumentum like the twigs. Leaflets 5–11(–13), 2.5–32 by 1.5–11 cm, often recurved at the margin when dry, acuminate or caudate at apex, tapering to a cuneate, rounded or cordate asymmetrical base, with hairs like those on the twigs usually absent but sometimes densely covering the midrib on upper surface, numerous on to densely covering the midrib and veins and numerous on the rest of the lower surface, the arms of adjacent hairs usually overlap-ping, with smaller paler hairs which have fewer and shorter arms interspersed on the surface in between; veins 5–25 on each side of the midrib, reticulation visible on lower surface; sessile or with petiolules up to 10(–20) mm. Male inflorescence up to 9–18 cm long, 3–22 cm wide; peduncle 1–3 cm, peduncle, rachis and branches with indumen-tum like the twigs. Female inflorescence smaller and with fewer branches than the male; otherwise like the male. Flowers 1–4 mm long and in diam., sessile. Calyx densely covered with stellate hairs on the outside. Petals 5. Staminal tube about half the length of the corolla, either cup-shaped, slightly incurved and shallowly 5-lobed at the apical margin, or subglobose, c. 1 mm in diam. with the aperture c. 0.4 mm across; anthers 5, half to as long as the length of the tube, broadly ovoid, inserted near the base or just be-low the margin of the tube, usually protruding, curved and pointing towards the centre of the flower. Infructescence 5–19 cm long and 15 cm wide, with up to 15 fruits; pe-duncle c. 1 cm, with indumentum like the twigs. Fruits 1.6–2.5 cm long, 1.2–1.7 cm in diam., yellow, subglobose or pyriform, with indumentum like the twigs; fruitstalks up to 5 mm. Locule(s) 1 or 2, each containing 0–1 seed. Seed with a complete orange, red or brown, gelatinous, translucent, acidic-tasting aril.
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A medium sized tree. It grows 20 m tall. The trunk is 40 cm across. The leaves are alternate and compound and hairy with 5 to 7 leaflets. The leaflets are hairy. The flowers are small and borne in compound flowers clusters. The fruit are red and velvety. It is juicy and about 2 cm across.
An understorey tree in evergreen, primary, secondary, riverine, montane and ridge forests; sometimes periodically inundated; on sandstone, alluvial, granite, limestone, sand, loam, laterite, clay; from sea level to 2,000 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. They occur from northern Luzon to southern Mindanao. It grows in forests at low altitudes. In Indonesia it grows up to 2,000 m above sea level.
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