A small tree or large shrub, up to 20 m by 20 cm. Branchlets c. 2 cm thick, puberulous to glabrous; pith with some peripherally arranged to several, partley peripheral, partly scattered small vascular strands. Leaves 6-8-jugate. Petiole up to 28 cm, much flattened and swollen at the base, pulverulent and glabrate, pith with many vascular strands. Leaflets oblong, 20-60 by 5½-13 cm, rigidly chartaceous, glabrous or slightly pubescent on the midrib underneath; base obliquely rounded; apex up to 2 cm blunt-acuminate; midrib and nerves very prominent beneath, nerves 18-38 pairs (angle from 90° near the base to 55-60° near the apex), curved. Panicles terminal, pendulous, lax, 35-120 cm long, minutely pulverulent, glabrescent, branches up to 55 cm long. Flowers (long-)stalked, glabrous, waxy, red, male c. 3 mm, female 5-6 mm. Calyx in male flowers 0.5 mm high, in female ones 2 mm. Stamens free, sometimes slightly adnate to the disk. Disk cupular, thick, more or less radially furrowed. Pistil not exsert from the disk in ♂ flowers. Fruits oblong or ovoid, contracted and acute at the apex, more or less oblique, 2-2.75 by 1-1¼ cm. Cotyledons folded, 3-lobed.
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A small tree. It grows 10-12 m tall. The stem is 15-20 cm across. The leaves are dark green. The fruit are a reddish pink colour. They are 2-3 cm long by 1.5 cm wide.
Primary and secondary forests up to 400 m. Fl. April-July, fr. May, June, Sept.-Dec.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in forest up to 600 m above sea level.
Primary and secondary forests at elevations up to 400 metres.
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