Tree up to 15 m high and 27 cm Ø, once recorded 45-50 cm Ø. Bark light grey, grey-brown, deeply fissured and ridged. Leaves imparipinnate, with 3-4(-5) pairs of leaflets; rachis 5-11½ cm, petiole 3-6 cm, both pubescent. Leaflets chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic-or ovate-oblong, 4½-13 by 2½-5½ cm, entire, very rarely some of them irregularly dentate; lower surface rather more densely pubescent than the upper surface, especially on the midrib, nerves, and veins, without a group of reddish brown papillae or glands in the axils between nerves and midrib; nerves 10-16 pairs; veins reticulate, distinct below, obscure above; base obliquely rounded or slightly cuneate; apex acute or acuminate; lateral petiolules ⅓-¾ cm, terminal one ½-l½ cm. Inflorescences paniculate, axillary, sometimes pseudo-terminal, up to 15 cm long, puberulous, glabrescent, branches up to 5 cm; bracts lanceolate, ⅓- long; pedicels c. 1 mm. Flowers cream white. Calyx lobes triangular, c. 1 mm long. Petals oblong or oblong-elliptic, 2-2¼ by 1-1¼ mm, glabrous. Stamens 1½ mm; anthers ovoid, 1-1¼ mm long; staminodes in ♀ c. 1 mm. Disk round and flat or discoid, c. 1¼ mm Ø. Ovary subglobose, c. ⅔ mm, sparsely hairy; pistillode in ♂ c ½ mm long. Drupe subglobose, c. 5 mm Ø, glabrous, pale brown to bronze when ripe, exocarp separating from mesocarp in ripe fruits.
Open grassy hills, hill scrub-forest, and forest along riverbanks, 240-1800 m. Fl. Aug.-Jan.; fr.--06.
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