Tree 4–18 m high. Young parts usually densely rusty villous; branchlets, leaves and peduncles pubescent or glabrous. Leaf rachis 8.5–18 cm long; leaflets 4–9 pairs, obliquely elliptic or oblong-ovate, usually falcate, acute or acuminate, serrate, serrulate or entire, base oblique, obtuse or acute, 1.5–11 cm long, 0.5–3 cm wide, pellucid-punctate, midrib excentric; petiolule 1–3 mm long; petiole 1.5–12 cm long, subterete, trisulcate at base. Panicles clustered below young leaves, 4.5–25 cm long and nearly as wide. Calyx pubescent to glabrous. Petals shortly clawed, 3 mm long, 2 mm wide, crest slender, thin, or fleshy, clavate. Filaments 2–6 mm long. Fruit obovoid or ellipsoidal, 1.4–2 cm long, 1.2–1.8 cm diam.
Lowland, coastal rainforests, usually in better soils, and along the banks of creeks.