Tree up to 30 m high and 67 cm Ø, very rarely shrubby c. 2 m high (cf. CARR 14726, at 1050 m). Buttresses occasionally present up to c. 1½ m high. Bark brownish grey, finely fissured. Twigs sometimes inhabited by ants and hollow. Leaves with (3-)5-6(-8) pairs of leaflets; rachis 12-46 cm, petiole 7-26 cm, both tomentose, glabrescent, or gteibrous. Leaflets coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate or ovate to lanceolate, 4½-23(-32) by 3-9(-15)cm; upper surface glabrous except sometimes tomentose on the midrib; lower surface pubescent (sometimes only on the midrib), glabrescent, or glabrous; base cuneate; apex obtuse or slightly emarginate, rarely abruptly acuminate; nerves 7-19 pairs, veins reticulate-scalariform; petiolules ½-1½ cm. Panicles up to 28 cm long, pubescent, glabrescent, branches up to 10 cm long; bracts linear, l-l¾ mm; pedicels c. ¾ mm. Flowers white. Calyx lobes triangular, c. ⅔ mm long. Petals elliptic, or obovate-oblong, 1½-3¼ by ⅔-1¼ mm-Stamens c. 2 mm; anthers ⅔-l mm, abortive and smaller in ♀. Disk c. 1 mm Ø. Ovary subglobose, c. ¾ mm Ø, glabrous; style c. ½ mm; stigmas subglobose; ovary abortive and small in ♂. Drupe obliquely broad-ellipsoid, ⅔-l by ½-⅔ cm, blackish purple when ripe, with an excentric scar of the style.
Forests of inundated areas and dryland, up to 540 m, sometimes up to c. 1000 m. Fl. March-Sept.; fr. March-Oct.
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