Tree to 15 m high. Branchlets, leaf axes and inflorescence puberulous or glabrous. Leaf rachis 3.5–4.5 cm long; leaflets 4–6, alternate, elliptic to ovate-oblong, obtuse to acuminate, 5.5–14.5 cm long, 2–6 cm wide, coriaceous, usually shiny or vernicose above, dark green, finely veined and reticulate; lateral veins 9–12 pairs; reticulation dense, mostly indistinct above; domatia linear, few, inconspicuous, usually absent; petiolules 5–10 mm long; petiole 3.5–5.5 cm long, dorsiventrally flattened. Panicles divaricately branched, 7–16 cm long; cymules long-stalked; bracts 4.5 mm long; pedicels 2.5–4.5 mm long. Calyx cupular, lobed to middle; lobes 1 mm long. Petals absent. Filaments glabrous. Fruit subglobose or ellipsoidal, 18–24 mm long including stipe, 1–1.2 cm diam., red; valves sparsely appressed hairy inside; stipe narrow, 1–1.4 cm long. Aril purple, flaky.