Tree to 9 m high. Branchlets, leaf axes and peduncles finely puberulous or glabrous; branchlets lenticellate. Leaf rachis 2–6 cm long; leaflets 8–10; lamina obovate to elliptic, obtuse or retuse, entire, acute at base, 2–6 cm long, 1.5–3 cm wide, glabrous, thinly coriaceous; lateral veins 4–10 mm apart, usually with domatia in some of their axils; petiolule 1–2 mm long; petiole 1.5–4 cm long. Panicles 6.5–17 cm long, openly branched; peduncles flexuose; pedicels 3–6 mm long. Calyx lobes 3.5–4 mm long, usually glabrous. Petals ovate, 3 mm long, puberulent; scales shorter. Fruit not seen.