Tree to 22 m tall with most parts ± densely brown-hirsute, sometimes minutely so. Leaves: axes with raised glands, one1 near petiole base and smaller ones at insertion of leaflets; pinnae 1-jugate; leaflets 21/2-or 31/2-jugate with hirsute petiolules 2.5–3.5 mm long, broadly elliptic to oblong-elliptic to lanceolate, acute to abruptly acute or acuminate with blunt tip, 3.5–18 cm long, 2.5–9 cm wide, hirsute on main veins on both surfaces. Inflorescences terminal, paniculate, c. 13 cm long, hirsute; peduncles to 1 cm long, bearing capitate clusters of c. 10 sessile flowers. Flowers minutely hirsute; calyx 1–2.4 mm long; corolla 4–5.5 mm long. Pod spirally contorted, c. 10 mm wide, coriaceous-fleshy, red outside and yellow or orange inside, minutely hirsute. Seeds ellipsoidal, 7–10 mm long, 5–8 mm diam., black.