(Shrub to) tree, up to 24 m high, dbh 10-40(-60) cm; (buttresses up to 1.5 m high or with stilt-roots) Twigs 6-13 mm in diam., tomentose. Leaves 2-or 3-jugate, (laxly) tomentose, glabrescent; petiole 8-25 cm by 3-7 mm; petiolules 7-22 by 1-8 mm. leaflets (elliptic to) obovate, 10-50 by 4-22 cm, index 1.7-3.7, coriaceous, tomentose above on midrib, beneath usually on midrib, nerves, (veins, and veinlets); base symmetrical or asymmetrical,acute; margin entire; apex emarginate to acute or cuspidate, mucronulate or not; midrib ± raised in a groove above, always visible, nerves sunken to slightly raised, veins densely to (in very large leaflets) laxly scalariform. Inflorescences axillary to terminal, stout and often clustered, 20-38 cm long,densely yellow tomentose to strigose. Flowers sweetly fragrant, white. Sepals 5 (or 6), connate at base, deltoid to ovate, 0.2-2.3 by 0.6-1.8 mm, acute to mucronate. Petals 5, blade small to absent (but mind the scale!), narrowly spathulate, 0-1.7 by 0-1 mm, outside glabrous to pilose; scale lobed, 1.5-2.1 by 0.9-2 mm. Disc up to 1 mm high, 2.5-3.5 mm in diam. Stamens 7 or 8; filaments 2-4.5 mm long. Pistil with 3 locules. Fruits 2.5-4 by 3.5-4.5 cm, yellowish or brownish or red to black, laxly to densely spiny, glabrous to densely shortly strigose.
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A shrub or tree. It can grow 24 m high. It can have buttresses 1.5 m high. The leaves have 2 or 3 pairs of leaflets. The leaflets are 10-50 cm long by 4-22 cm wide. The flowers have a sweet scent. The flowers are white.
Primary forest, often on river banks, sometimes on a slope; growing on clay or sand, sandstone or limestone; at elevations from sea level to 300 metres, exceptionally to 450 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in primary forests often along riverbanks. It grows from sea level to 450 m above sea level.
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