Shrub or small tree, 1-8 m, stem 3-10 cm ø. Leaves 20-60 cm long; leaflets 3-9(-13), ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, entire, toothed, undulate, bluntly serrate, or crenate, glabrous or pubescent, 5-16 by 1-8 cm; petiole 2-13 cm, lateral petiolules 2-10 mm, terminal one 3-40 mm. Inflorescence and flowers as in B. javanica, but the pedicels of the female flowers up to 6 mm long. Flowers white, creamy, green or red. Mature dried drupes 1-2(-3) together, 9-13 mm long.