Tree to 15 m high. Shoots and peduncles puberulent; branchlets and leaf axes glabrescent. Leaf rachis 1.5–6 cm long; leaflets 4–6, elliptic-oblong to obovate, obtuse to acute, entire, 5.5–10.5 cm long, 2–4 cm wide, glabrous above, puberulent or glabrescent below, thinly coriaceous; petiolules 3–6 mm long; petiole 2–5.5 cm long. Panicles axillary, to 28 cm long; pedicels 5–10 mm long, pubescent. Sepals oblong or suborbicular, 4–5 mm long, tomentose to puberulent. Petals clawed, 7–8 mm long, pubescent inside. Disc glabrous. Stamens usually 8. Ovary tomentose; style 5–10 mm long, twisted. Fruit subsessile, transversely ellipsoidal, 1.3–2.5 cm long, yellow-orange to red; lobes subglobose, bladdery, glabrescent, reticulate; valves chartaceous, glabrous inside, sepals not persistent. Seed 1 per locule; aril minute or absent.
Lowland rainforest and coastal scrub, usually found in sandy soils near the sea. Grows in drier, more seasonal rain forests at elevations up to 850 metres.
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Usually grows in dry rainforest on basalt.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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