Tree to 15 m high. Buds pubescent; scars of inner pair of bud scales directly above those of outer pair. Leaves imparipinnate, 5–7-foliolate, 11–28 cm long; petiolules of lateral leaflets obsolete or to 8 mm long; terminal leaflet sessile or with petiolule to 20 mm long; laminae elliptic or narrowly so, 4–16 cm long, 0.7–5 cm wide, entire, acuminate. Inflorescences 10–16 cm long. Sepals basally connate, c. 1 mm long, persistent in fruit. Petals glabrous, 4–5 mm long. Ovary c. 1 mm high, sparsely to densely hispidulous-velutinous; ovules 5 per locule; style glabrous. Follicles obliquely obovoid or subglobose, c. 10 mm long; exocarp sparsely pubescent. Seeds broadly ellipsoid, c. 7 mm long.