Tree 13–20 m high. Young parts densely rusty-villous; branchlets, leaf axes and peduncles dark brown-tomentose; branchlets stout, fluted. Leaf rachis 25–39 cm long; leaflets usually 20–26, oblong-ovate or subelliptic, ± falcate, acute to acuminate, serrate or serrulate, oblique and obtuse at base, 6–17.5 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, glabrous above, puberulous below; midrib ± excentric, hairy; petiolule 1–5 mm long; petiole 3–11 cm long. Panicles clustered below tips of branchlets, 22–38 cm long, much branched; bracts velvety; pedicels 2–4 mm long, pubescent. Calyx pubescent. Petals shortly clawed, 2 mm long; crests clavate. Filaments 1–3 mm long. Fruit obovoid, 1.2 cm long, 1 cm diam.