Evergreen tree to 39 m tall; bole to 75 cm diam. with buttresses to 1.5 m tall; bark dark brown, lenticellate; sapwood white; leafy shoots 4–8 mm diam. Leaves to 1 m long, paripinnate, and 18-jugate with short claw-like pseudogemmula; leaflets elliptic-oblong, 9–32 cm long, 4.2–13 cm wide, sparsely stellate-hairy; petiolules 4–8 mm long. Thyrses to 45 cm long, 3-or 4-times branched, fragrant. Calyx 1.5–3 mm long, irregularly lobed. Petals 4 or 5, 6–7 mm long, 0.4–0.7 mm wide, white to pinkish. Staminal tube pubescent except at ends; margin usually 5-lobed; anthers usually 5, scarcely locellate. Disc small, cupular. Ovary usually 2-locular; style stellate-hairy; stylehead cylindrical. Capsule subspherical, 3–3.5 cm long, reddish; stipe 1–2 cm; pericarp spongy. Seeds usually 2, to 11 mm diam., sarcotestal.
A tree. The leaves are compound.