Shrub or treelet, up to 4.5 m high. Twigs, leaf axes, and inflorescences densely, shortly, brownish puberulous, usually early glabrescent except for the inflorescences. Twigs 3.5-6 mm thick. Leaves 2-4-jugate; petiole 4-8 cm long; petiolules 2-8 mm long. Leaflets ovate (lowermost leaflets) to elliptic, 7-21 by 3.5-8 cm, index 1.75-3.25, stiff-per-gamentaceous; base symmetrical (to slightly oblique), acute to rounded, not or slightly decurrent; apex acute, fairly abruptly (to hardly acuminate), acumen fairly short, rounded to acute; above (glabrous to) thin-puberulous on midrib and nerves, beneath with some scattered hair tufts on base of midrib only (to thin-puberulous on midrib and nerves); midrib above slightly raised to basally nearly flat; nerves 1.25-3 cm apart, above slightly raised; intersecondary nerves variably developed. Inflorescences axillary (to pseudoterminal), solitary, 1.5-15 cm long, sparsely and laxly branched, few-(to l-)flowered; pedicels in flower c. 4 mm long. Only male flowers known. Sepals elliptic, c. 6 by 4 mm, persistent. Petals linear-lanceolate, c. 8 by 1.5 mm, white, glabrous. Disc uninterrupted, velvety. Stamens 5; filaments c. 5 mm long; anthers c. 2 mm long. Pistil 2-locular; ovules 1 per locule. Fruits transverse-ellipsoid, 20-25 by 25-30 mm, to subglobular, c. 2 cm in diam., the lobes erect, strongly bulging; stipe slightly hollowed, c. 1.5 mm long; apex obtuse; wall thin, hard, outside granulate and in old fruits coarsely reticulately veined, bright red, glabrous, inside glabrous or with scattered tufts of few hairs. Seeds black with a pink to bright red arillode.
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