Tree up to 25 m high and 60 cm Ø. Leaves with 4-7 pairs of leaflets, glabrous. Leaflets coriaceous, ovate-oblong to lanceolate, sometimes broadly ovate, 5-16 by 1½-8 cm; base asymmetric or oblique, obtuse, subcordate, or cuneate; apex acuminate; nerves 5-14 pairs, slightly elevated below, distinct above; veins reticulate, distinct on both surfaces; petiolules flat or convex above, lateral ones ⅓-1¾ cm, terminal one up to 2½ cm. Panicles up to 35 cm long, slightly puberulous, glabrescent; branches up to 8 cm; bracts sub-orbicular, c. ⅓ mm long, puberulous outside, glabrous inside. Flowers subsessile, pinkish. Calyx c. 1½ mm long, sparsely puberulous, sometimes almost glabrous, on both surfaces; lobes rounded, c. ⅓ mm long. Petals elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 3-4 by 1½ mm, glabrous. Stamens inserted at the outer margin of the disk, 2½-3 mm; anthers ovoid, c. 1 mm long; sterile stamens in ♀ c. 2 mm. Disk flat and slightly 4-angular, 1-1¾ mm wide. Ovary ovoid, c. l½ mm Ø; style c. 1 mm; stigmas capitate. Drupe (MERRILL) ovoid, c. 2 cm long, enlarged calyx sparsely puberulous or almost glabrous on both surfaces, reddish when young and brownish when ripe; tube c. 1½ cm long; lobes (or wings) narrowly oblong, 5½-10 by ¾-1½ cm. Seed not seen.
Uses. The timber is not in general use; in Mas-bate, Philippines, it is recorded for making canoes (MERRILL).
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