Tree to 15 m tall, puberulous in most parts. Leaves: axes with urceolate, ±pedicellate glands on main axis and at tip of pinnae axes; pinnae 1-jugate; leaflets with puberulous petiolules 3-4 mm long, solitary on pinnae or rarely a second, unpaired leaflet lower on axis, elliptic or widely elliptic, acute or acuminate, 4.5-16 cm long, 3.5-7.5 cm wide, glabrous. Inflorescences terminal and often also axillary, puberulous racemes bearing umbel-like clusters of 6-12 flowers; peduncles c. 2 cm long. Flowers white, glabrous or subglabrous; calyx c. 2.5 mm long, truncate; corolla 8.5 mm long. Pod narrowly oblong, curved, to 8 cm long and 13 mm wide, fleshy-coriaceous, reddish, strongly warty with warts interconnected in ridges. Seeds ellipsoidal, 9-9.5 mm long, 5.5-7 mm wide, black.