Evergreen tree, up to 15-20(-25) m. Leaves 2-5(-6)-jugate; rachis terete, 6-50 cm, including the up to c. 25(-30) cm long petiole, up to c. 10(—15) mm across, rarely slightly pubescent, usually with distinctly swollen base; leaflets usually elliptic to lanceolate, (3-)5-35(-50) by (1.5-)2.5-15(-20) cm, base cuneate to rounded, shortly narrowed into the petiole, apex acuminate to caudate, usually entire, beneath rarely more or less pubescent, without domatia; midrib slightly prominent above; nerves (5—)7—13(—19) pairs, ascending, nearly always looped and joined; petiolules very short or up to c. 6 cm, usually distinctly swollen at the base especially in older leaves. Panicles usually terminal, usually narrowly, sometimes widely pyramidal, 7-50(-75) cm, usually profusely branched up to the 4th order, rather stiff and coarse, puberulous, bearing numerous crowded flowers; primary side-axes usually rather short, up to c. 30 cm, the lower ones exceptionally subtended by small to reduced leaves; bracts ovate to narrowly triangular, up to c. 6 mm, ± puberulous. Pedicels absent or short, up to c. 2 mm. Mature buds (1.5—)2—3(—3.5) mm diam. Sepals 5 or 4, ovate, unequal, the inner 3 or 4 c. 1-2 mm, the outer 1 or 2 usually smaller, often minute, sometimes lowered on the pedicel, sometimes puberulous out-, side, especially the outer ones, with entire or 2-or 3-J lobed, often ciliolate margin. Outer petalsglabrous. Inner petals elliptic to lanceolate or strap-shaped 1 with wide-truncate tip, (1.2—)1.5—2(—3) mm, acute J to slightly bifid or retuse and frayed at the tip. Ovary 0.5-1 mm, glabrous. Fruit globose to short-ellipsoid, when ripe 1-3 cm diam., with rather thick spongy to pulpy mesocarp; endocarp ellipsoid, sometimes nearly globose, 0.7-2 cm diam., with almost smooth to somewhat lumpy surface, often with a few faint to sharply prominent ribs; median keel distinct, slightly elevated to sharply prominent, at one end often running out into a more or less prominent curving, at the other end sometimes into a minute tubercle; ventral pore mostly rather wide, usually somewhat sunken.
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A tree. It grows 25 m tall. The bark is patchy white. The trunk is 40 cm across. The leaves are 6-50 cm long including a leaf stalk 30 cm long. There are 3-6 pairs of leaflets. They are oval or sword shaped. They are 3-50 cm long by 1.5-5 cm wide. There are 5-19 pairs of secondary veins. The flowering clusters are at the ends of branches. They are 7-75 cm long The flowers have 2-3 lobed sepals. The fruit are round and yellow ripening to red. The fruit are edible.
An understorey tree in dense primary forest and more open, secondary growth in lowland and montane rain forest; by streams and on hilltops and ridges; on various soils, fertile and infertile, in dry to wet localities; at elevations to 2,200 metres.
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Primary and secondary lowland and montane rain-forest, up to c. 2200 m altitude. Found on various soils, fertile as well as infertile, in dry to wet localities, in dense to open forests, by streams as well as on hilltops and ridges.
A tropical plant. It grows in mixed forest up to 1,200 m above sea level. It grows along rivers and on hillsides. It is usually on clay soils.
Uses. The species was proposed by KOORDERS & VALETON, l.C, for reforestation purposes. In Mindanao the triturated bark and leaves are several times reported to be in use as a medicine applied for wounds, to soothe itchy skin or — charred and put in water — against tympanites. It was also said to be used in agricultural rituals. The fruits are many times reported to be edible.
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