Shrub or tree to 3 (–10) m high. Branchlets, leaves, peduncles and fruit finely pubescent to glabrescent. Leaves simple, with lamina elliptic, 4.5–17 cm long, 2–8 cm wide; or paripinnate with 2–4 pairs of leaflets, the rachis 2.5–7 cm long, the leaflets with lamina elliptic or oblong-ovate, obtuse at both ends, oblique at base, 5–9.5 cm long, 2.5–5 cm wide, the petiolule 5–10 mm long; petiole 0.5–3.5 cm long. Panicles to 27 cm long; pedicels 2–5 mm long. Sepals 2.5–3 mm long, c. 2 mm wide, densely silky outside. Petals 5, as long as sepals, densely silky outside; scales without crests. Disc complete. Samaras 2.5–3.5 cm long, pubescent, wing ±erect, recurved at apex.