Tree up to 18 m high, dbh up to 33 cm; monoecious. Hairs mainly solitary. Twigs c. 5 mm in diam., striate, dark purplish brown, fulvous-velutinous, gradually glabrescent, not conspicuously lenticel-late. Leaves spirally arranged, (l-)4-6-jugate; petiole 3-9 cm long, in the basal part flat to grooved and with marginal ribs, higher up more or less flattened; petiolules 2-10 mm long, above with a broad and flat to narrow and deep groove. Leaflets opposite to alternate, 5-22 by 2.75-9 cm, index 1.75-3, stiff chartaceous, hairy on midrib (and nerves below to fully glabrous), hairy domatia in the nerve axils beneath; base ± symmetrical, rounded in the lower, acute and attenuate in the upper leaflets; apex obtuse to broadly, and obtusely acuminate; midrib prominulous above; nerves 1-3.5 cm apart, slight ly to distinctly curved, those in the upper half of the leaflets ± distinctly looped and joined at some distance from the margin, prominulous above, more so beneath; intersecondary nerves ± strongly de veloped. Inflorescences thyrsoid, up to c. 20-25 cm long, fulvous-velutinous; cymules crowded, sessile, glomerulous, several-flowered; pedicels 1.5-2 mm long; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, 2-2.5 mm long. Sepals 4, valvate to narrowly im bricate, 2-3 by 1.5-2.5 mm, inside tomentose. Disc glabrous. Stamens 6 or 7; filaments c. 5 mm long; anthers broad-ellipsoid, c. 1 mm long, dehiscence introrse. Ovary obcordate; style very short; stigma grooved. Infructescences unknown. Fruits pear-shaped, 6-7 by 4.5-6 cm when dried, yellow when fresh, glabrous, pericarp thick, fleshy, endocarp tough. Seeds subovoid, 3-3.5 by 1.75-2.25 cm, testa brown, smooth, glabrous.
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A tree. It grows 18 m high. The trunk can be 40 cm across. The leaves are arranged in spirals. The leaves are compound. There are 4-6 pairs of leaflets. The fruit is pear shaped and fleshy. It is about 7 cm across. It is yellow to red. There are 2 seeds.
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