Tree, medium to large, up to 50 m. tall. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, paripinnate, 24-60 cm. long; leaflets 3-7 (-9) pairs, elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong to narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, the base cuneate to rounded, the apex rounded, apiculate or cuspidate, sometimes rounded to acute or acuminate, 11-48 cm. long, 3.5-15.5 cm. wide, glabrous on both surfaces. Inflorescences axillary, paniculate; bracts and bracteoles persistent, glabrous. Flowers white to yellowish or greenish, also dull red or purple, sessile to subsessile, 4-5 mm. long, 4-merous; sepals rounded or broadly ovate; petals imbricate in bud; staminal tube cupulate to urceolate, 8-toothed, the teeth truncate, ernarginate or irregularly toothed; anthers 8; disk shallow or concave and ridged; ovary 4-angulate, 4-celled; ovules 2 per cell. Fruit globose, 4-ridged, sometimes warty on the ridges; seeds 7-8, dark brown.
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Deciduous or semi-evergreen tree to 55 m in wild, flushing claret. Leaves paripin-nate, usually 4–8-jugate. Flowers creamy white in thyrses to 60 cm long. Fruit 5–10 cm diam. Seeds with woody sarcotesta.
A tree. It grows 30 m tall. It can have buttresses. The trunk can be 60-90 cm across. The leaves are alternate and the leaflets are opposite.
A canopy or subcanopy layer element of lowland rainforest, sometimes in pure stands, preferring marsh edge, swamp forests, alluvial riverbanks and periodically flooded plains.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in seasonally flooded forests.
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