Evergreen, small tree, up to c. 10 m. Leaves 2-3(-4)-jugate; rachis terete, 12-30 cm, including the 6-15 cm long petiole, up to c. 5 mm diam., densely short-tomentose, later ± glabrescent; leaflets usually elliptic to oblong, the lower ones often more or less ovate to ovate-oblong, the upper ones often more or less obovate to obovate-oblong, sometimes ± asymmetrical, (2-)5-22 by (1.5—) 3-12 cm, mostly distinctly increasing in size towards the top of the leaf, base acute to rounded, apex more or less acuminate, sometimes subacute or cuspidate, with entire to remotely spinously dentate margin, chartaceous, moderately to rather densely pubescent especially beneath and on midrib and nerves, often partly glabrescent when older, never with domatia; midrib more or less impressed above; nerves 6-12 pairs, ascending, usually looped; venation distinct, reticulate; petiolules up toc. 1.5(-3) cm, terminal one usually longest, tomentose. Panicles terminal, usually more or less pendulous, flaccid, lax, narrowly pyramidal, (20-)25-55 cm, not profusely branched up to the 2nd or 3rd order, branches spreading, ± flaccid, usually slender, densely tomentose, bearing numerous flowers crowded in dense spikes; primary side-axes few to rather many, up to c. 25(-35) cm, the lower ones usually subtended by reduced leaves; bracts ovate to usually narrowly triangular or linear-lanceolate, up to c. 4 mm, densely pubescent. Pedicels (almost) absent. Mature buds c. 2 mm diam. Sepals 5 (4), ovate to ovate-lanceolate, the 3 or 4 inner ones 1-1.5 mm, the outer 1 or 2 usually much smaller, often minute, densely pubescent on the outside, with entire margin. Outer petals glabrous. Inner petals about halfway or somewhat less bifid, 0.5-0.7 mm, glabrous, sometimes with a minute central lobule. Filaments c. 1 mm. Ovary 0.5-0.7 mm, densely pubescent. Fruit (sub)globose, when ripe 0.7-1 cm diam.; endocarp depressed-globose, applanate at the ventral side, strongly oblique, 6—7(—8). mm diam., with usually distinct, more or less sharply prominent reticulum; median keel sharp and very prominent, not at one end running out into a ventral processus or tubercle, at the other end rather far curving outwards; ventral pore rather sunken.
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