Large tree, 24-30 m, stem 30-60 cm ø; fluted at base; bark grey, fissured. Innovations and racemes lacquered, resinous sticky. Leaves (2-)3-pinnate, up to 1 m, more or less crowded at the twig-ends; pinnae 4-6 pairs; leaflets elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, stalked, 3½-8½ by 1½-3½ cm, underneath fine glandular-punctate and with scattered small, shallow glands especially near the base, and a few scattered flat glandular spots. Flowers thickly set in closely placed ramiflorous pendent racemes to 20 cm long, erect on curved pedicels 1-2 cm long and with 3 bracteoles ± halfway on an articulation. Calyx in bud pear-shaped, closed, reddish green, tubular, 2-3-lobed, eglandular outside, microscopically glandular-papillose inside, c. 2¼-2½ cm long, 1 cm ø at mouth, lobes 4-6 mm, 1-2 split ± halfway. Corolla with yellow tube and red limb; tube slightly curved, narrow salver-shaped, without narrowed basal tube, 5-7 cm, the basal 1½ cm densely pubescent with thick hairs, mouth 1½-2 cm ø; lobes rounded, subequal, ± 1 cm ø, ± papillose inside. Stamens (and style) reaching the mouth, inserted halfway the tube, glabrous but their adnate base lax glandular-papillose, thecae ± divergent, 4-5 mm; no produced connective. Disk thick, annular-cup-shaped, faintly crenate. Ovary ribbed, pistil c. 4 cm, stigmatic lobes 2 mm, very narrow. Capsule straight or twisted, 35-70 cm, c. 5 mm ø; septum 2¼-3 mm ø. Seeds 4-5 by 2½ mm, the wings 6-7 mm.
Rainforest, also in disturbed forest on hill side, 950-1500 m. Fl. Aug., Jan.-March; fr. April, Dec.
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