Tree to 15 m high. Branchlets, leaf axes and peduncles rusty crispate-tomentose to puberulous. Leaf rachis 1–5 cm long; leaflets 4–6, opposite to alternate; lamina elliptic or ovate-oblong, acuminate to obtuse, entire or serrulate, acute or obtuse at base, 6–12.5 cm long, 2–3.5 cm wide, glabrous above, usually puberulous below; lateral veins 7–12 pairs, divaricate, raised below, the cross veins prominent; domatia present along midrib; petiolule 5–8 mm long; petiole 1.5–4.5 cm long. Panicles axillary, 6–19 cm long; pedicels 1–1.5 mm long. Calyx 2–3 mm long, tomentose. Petals ± rhomboidal, to 3 mm long. Disc and stamens hairy. Filaments 2–3 mm long. Ovary 3-lobed; style slender. Fruit sessile, 1–4-lobed, 0.6–0.8 cm long, 1–1.5 cm diam.; lobes ellipsoidal, divaricate, grooved at sutures; valves thick, hairy outside, glabrous inside.