Trees, small, rarely shrubs, evergreen, 3-10 m tall, rarely to 13 m tall. Branches terete, striate, pubescent when young, lenticels many, dense, yellowish white. Leaves with petiole 15-35 cm; leaflets 2 or 3(or 4) pairs, subopposite; petiolules less than 1 cm; blades oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, 8-18 × 2.5-7.5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially glabrous or hairy at vein axils, lateral veins 7-10 pairs, nearly ascending to margin and arched upward, prominent abaxially, base broadly cuneate to nearly obtuse, apex cuspidate and mucronate. Inflorescences compact, multiflowered, shorter than leaves, rarely longer than leaves, ferruginous tomentose. Flowers fragrant. Pedicels 1-2 mm. Sepals ca. 1 mm, pilose. Petals 5, nearly as long as calyx; scales villous. Disk lobed. Stamens often 8; filaments unequal in length, 3-4 mm. Ovary appressed pilose. Fertile schizocarps red or orange, ellipsoid, 1-1.5 cm × 7-9 mm. Seeds dark red, arillode pellucid. Fl. early summer, fr. autumn.
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A shrub or tree. It grows 4-8 m high. It can be a tree 20 m high. The leaves have leaflets along the stalk. The leaves are 12-35 cm long and have 8-12 leaflets. These are sword shaped and 8-18 cm long by 3-8 cm wide. They taper to the tip and are rounded at the base. The flowers are yellowish-white. They have a scent. They are in groups 6-14 cm long and in the axils of leaves or at the ends of branches. The fruit is orange. They are 1-2 cm long by 5-10 mm wide. They have one seed.
A tropical plant. It grows at low altitudes. It southern China it grows between 540-1,180 m altitude. In Malaysia it grows in lowland forests and up to 1,500 m above sea level. It is common near the beach in rainforests. In Yunnan.
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