Tree up to 30(-35) m high and 60(-80) cm ø. Buttresses occasionally present, up to 5 m high, c. 2 m wide, thin. Bark light brown, smooth. Leaves with 4-7 pairs of leaflets; rachis 10-35 cm long, petiole 8-25 cm, both sparsely puberulous, glabrescent, or glabrous. Leaflets coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, broad-elliptic, sometimes ovate to lanceolate, 6-22 by 3½-9½ cm, glabrous above, lower surface puberulous on the midrib and nerves, glabrescent, or glabrous, without domatia; base cuneate, sometimes unequal; apex acuminate, sometimes acute, rarely obtuse; nerves 10-16 pairs; veins reticulate-scalariform; petiolules ½-1 ¾ cm, the terminal one up to 4 cm. Panicles up to 35(-70) cm long, puberulous, glabrescent; branches up to 30 cm long; floral bracts triangular, ⅓-l mm long, puberulous on both surfaces; pedicels c. ½ mm. Flowers light green or pale yellow. Calyx lobes elliptic, 3 mm long, puberulous outside. Petals ovate-oblong, 4-4½ by 1½-l¾ mm. Stamens 2-3 mm long; anthers oblong or ovoid-oblong, c. 1 mm long. Disk c. 2 mm ø, glabrous. Pistil 3-3½ mm long. Ovary oblong-ellipsoid, c. ½ the length of pistil, 1½ mm ø. Drupe ovoid or broadly ellipsoid, 2-2½ cm long and c. 1½ cm ø, black when ripe, seemingly 1-celled (due to abortion); endocarp ovoid or broadly ellipsoid, c. 1½ cm ø, smooth. Seed oblong, c. ⅔ cm long.
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A tree. It grows 44 m tall. The leaves are alternate and compound. The flowers are 5 mm across. They are white to yellow. They are in groups. The fruit are about 2.5 cm long. They are reddish-purple. They are fleshy.
An upper canopy tree of undisturbed forests, rarely in swamps, mostly along rivers, hillsides and ridges, most commonly on sandy soils, but also found on limestone; at elevations up to 700 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in forests up to 700 m above sea level. They are often along rivers and sometimes in swamps. They can be on sandy soils or limestone.
Primary forest, from the lowland up to 100 m, sometimes occurring on sandstone or limestone. Fl. April, Aug.-Oct.; fr. Jan., May-July.
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