Tree to 6 m high, ± unbranched. Branchlet fluted, pale brown velvety, lenticellate; leaf axes puberulous or glabrous. Leaf rachis 14–37 cm long; leaflets 16–24; lamina narrowly ovate to elliptic, acuminate to obtuse, irregularly serrulate, obtuse and oblique at base, 6–18 cm long, 2.5–6 cm wide, glabrous or lower surface puberulous, coriaceous; petiolule 0.8–3.0 cm long; petiole 8–16 cm long. Panicles 10–21 cm long; peduncles pubescent; pedicels 1–3 mm long. Calyx lobes 5–7 mm long, silky outside. Petals ovate, 2.5 mm long, pink-mauve; scales short. Ovary ferruginous tomentose. Fruit sessile, obovoid-obcordate, grooved at sutures, rusty with pink flush, velvety, 1.8–2.4 cm long, 1.6–2.7 cm diam.; valves thin, hairy inside, drying deeply wrinkled. Aril cupular, yellow.