A medium sized tree. It grows 40 m tall. The trunk is 90 cm across. It has buttresses 3 m high. The bark is dark brown. The branches are rounded and fairly thick. At maturity the branches do not have hairs but they have leaf scars. The leaves are many and crowded towards the ends of the twigs. The leaves are 50-80 cm long with 10-16 pairs of leaflets. They are 3-20 cm long by 2-5 cm wide and smooth. The flowering branches are 50 cm long. The flowers are white and scattered and with short stalks. The fruit are 3 cm long, oval and flattened. They are green and smooth with one flattened large seed.