Tree up to 37 m high and 120 cm ø. Buttresses up to c. 3½ m high, 1¾ m wide. Bark grey-green to brown, irregularly fissured. Leaves with 4-9 pairs of leaflets; rachis 22-57 cm, petiole 4½-23 cm, both pubescent, glabrescent, or glabrous. Leaflets chartaceous or subcoriaceous, ovate-oblong, 22½-32½ by 5-12¾ cm, glabrous except for the hairy domatia; base slightly unequally obtuse; apex shortly acuminate; nerves 7-15 pairs; veins reticulate, some obliquely cross-bar-like; petiolules ⅓-l cm, the terminal one up to l½ cm. Panicles up to 30 cm long, pubescent, glabrescent; branches up to 11 cm long; floral bracts ovate, 1-1½ mm long, puberulous on both surfaces; pedicels ½-2 mm. Flowers whitish green. Calyx lobes ovate-oblong, c. 3 mm long, puberulous outside. Petals ovate-oblong, sometimes lanceolate, 4½-5 by 1¾-2¼ mm. Stamens 3-4 mm; anthers ovoid, 1-1¼ mm long. Disk 3-3½ mm ø, puberulous. Pistil 3½-4 mm long. Ovary depressed-globose, c. ⅓ the length of pistil, 2-3 mm ø. Drupe depressed-globose, 2 cm long and 3-5½ cm ø, up to 5½ cm long and 6½-7 cm Ø when fresh, dark brown when ripe, distinctly 5-celled; endocarp lentiform, 3-5 cm ø, with numerous, irregular processes. Seed broadly ovoid, ¾-1 cm long.
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A small tree. It grows 10-20 m high. The trunk is straight and 50-60 cm across. It can have small buttresses. The leaves are compound with several leaflets in pairs and one at the end. The leaves are arranged in spirals along the small branches. The leaves are 18-22 cm long by 6-9 cm wide. The fruit are 4-5 cm long. They are pale brown.
Lowland rainforest, common on raised alluvial flats and on swampy ground. Fl. Sept.-Oct.; fr. March, July, Sept.
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A sub-canopy tree of forests. Lowland rain-forest, common on raised alluvial flats and on swampy ground.
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