Tree of large to medium size, the thick branches often with rugose and scaly bark, the young parts stellate-puberulent. Leaves short-petiolate or subsessile, ascending; blades oblong-obovate, rounded to emarginate at the apex, basally equilateral and cuneate to attenuate, stellate-pubescent beneath and also lepidote with minute brown scales, glabrous above and with scattered scales, somewhat lustrous above, 14-35 cm long, 5.5-15 cm broad, the midvein conspicuously raised beneath, the 32-52-+-parallel secondaries pinnate, the reticulation prominulous below and prominent above. Panicles to 40 cm long, spicate, often with several primary branches arising from the main axis, with a brown stellate pubescence, occasionally with small ovate or lance-ovate bracts subtending the branches. Flowers with pedicels 0-2 mm long; calyx-lobes 4, broadly ovate, ca 0.5 mm long, stellate-pubescent; petals 4, ovate, broadly acute to rounded, 1.2-2 mm long, con-cave, glabrous, yellow; stamens 8, equal to or slightly shorter than the petals; disc tumid and conspicuous, crenate; ovary lepidote, latissimus-ovate, 1-locular, the ovule apical. Drupes triangular-ovoid, 1-1.5 cm long.
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A tall evergreen tree. It grows 10-30 m tall. The trunk is straight and 25-35 cm across. Leaves are oval and like cashew leaves. They are alternate and in groups near the ends of branches. Young leaves are reddish-orange. Male and female plants are separate. Flowers are yellow. The fruit are green and turn red when ripe.
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