Dioecious deciduous shrub or tree, (3–)7–24 m. tall; bark grey, smooth; slash orange.. Leaves yellow when young, turning pink-flushed then pale green; leaf-rhachis 3–12 cm. long, the lowest leaflets near the base forming pseudo-stipules1.5–4 cm. long; leaflets in (1?–)2–3(–4?) pairs, oblanceolate, elliptic, ovate or lanceolate, 3–25 cm. long, 1.5–11 cm. wide, the uppermost the largest, the lowermost much smaller, acute or obtuse at the apex, cuneate to truncate at the base, the margin sometimes undulate, glabrous save for main nervation beneath; main lateral nerves in 4–14 pairs.. Inflorescences terminal, axillary or cauliflorous; main axis 5–15 cm. long, elongating to 30 cm. in fruit, usually branched, the branches 3–5 cm. long, pseudo-racemose with flowers single or in short cymes; pedicels 2–9 mm. long.. Flowers brownish yellow, yellowish white, pinkish yellow or brownish red; sepals 4, ovate, 1.5–2 mm. long, spreading, pubescent outside, nearly glabrous inside; petals lacking; disk yellow.. Stamens 5, well exserted; filaments 3–8 mm. long, glabrous; staminodes with filaments 1 mm. long.. Ovary yellow-pubescent; style 2(–3)-lobed, glabrous, drying dark coloured.. Fruit orange, drying ferruginous pubescent, of 1–2 mericarps, single ones usually asymmetrically ovoid, 2–2.5 cm. long; pulp fleshy.. Fig. 18.
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A tree. It grows 24 m high. The bark is rough brown and smooth in small trees. The leaves are compound with 2-3 pairs of leaflets along the stalk. The leaves are alternate and the leaflets are opposite. The leaves are 3-25 cm long by 2-11 cm wide. The lowest leaflet is smaller. The leaves are yellow when young and turn pink then pale green. The flowers are at the ends of branches, in the axils of the leaves and can be on the trunk. They are in groups 5-15 cm long. The flowers are small and pale pink or yellow. The fruit are oval and orange. They are hairy and like berries. They are 2 cm long by 2.5 cm wide.
Lowland, dry submontane and riverine forest, thickets. Closed forest, wet evergreen forest, riparian forest and bushland; lowland rain-forest and wooded ravines at elevations up to 2,000 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in dry lowland forests and along rivers. It occurs between 30-2,000 m above sea level.
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