Moderate to large tree. Young branchlets slightly pubescent, older ones scabrous. Leaves (1-)2-3-jugate. Lateral petiolules 0.5-1.75 cm. Leaflets ovate to lanceolate, 5-11.5 by 2.25-5.5 cm, herbaceous to subcoriaceous, glabrous; base slightly oblique, cuneate to rounded; margin entire; apex with a short and broad, blunt to emarginate acumen; nerves 8-11 pairs, nearly straight, arched at some distance from the margin. Inflorescences axillary, paniculate, minutely puber-ulous, ♂ 5-15 cm, shortly stalked, female more lax, 4-8 cm, peduncle up to half as long as the inflorescence. Flowers 5-merous, 2 mm long, nearly glabrous. Sepals nearly halfway connate, 0.5 mm. Pistil in male flowers only very slightly reduced (always sterile?), minutely puberulous. Fruits obliquely ellipsoid, monopyrenous, 7 by 5 mm, or 2-4-lobed and 2-4-pyrenous, 8 by 8 mm, sparsely ferrugineous-pilose, glabrescent.
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A tree. It grows 30 m tall. The trunk is fluted and 45 cm across. It is crooked and has buttresses. It can have aerial roots. The leaves are spaced along the branches and in spirals. The leaves are compound with 3 or more leaflets It has a leaflet at the end. The leaves are 3-11 cm long by 1.5-6 cm wide. The flowers are in groups in the axils of the leaves. The fruit are 7-8 mm long and on a branched axis. It is reddish brown. There are 2-3 seeds about 5 mm long.
Mostly in parkland, sometimes in secondary forest, also in swamps., from low altitudes up to 1100 m. FL and fr. May-Nov.
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Open areas of parkland, sometimes in secondary forest; at elevations up to 800 metres.
It is a tropical plant. It grows up to 800 m above sea level.
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