Tree, 20-30(-42) m by 40-90(-120) cm, sometimes with buttresses up to 2 m high. Branchlets 4-6 mm thick, minutely tomentose to glabrous; terminal bud 1-2 cm long. Leaves (2-)3-5-jugate, (sub)-glabrous. Petioles 4-12(-19) cm, terete or slightly flattened at the base, sometimes narrowly grovved at base. Leaflets oblong to ovate, (6-)8-17(-25) by (1½-)3-6(-10) cm, rather rigid, sometimes slightly pubescent on the midrib beneath; base cuneate to rounded; apex gradually to rather abruptly, short and bluntly acuminate; nervation prominent underneath; nerves 9-16 pairs (angle 60-70°), slightly curved, not arching. Panicles either axillary, together pseudoterminal, or terminal, broad, 15-40 cm long, peduncle 0-9 cm, branches up to 15 cm, densely pubescent to glabrate. Flowers sparsely pubescent to glabrous, ♂ 2.5-3 mm long, female 4 mm. Calyx deeply cleft, in ♂ flowers 1 mm high, in female flowers 2 mm. Filaments free or slightly adnate to the disk. Disk cupular, thick, rim truncate to undulate. Pistil in ♂ flowers slightly reduced. Infructescences stout, verrucose. Fruits oblique, oblong-ellipsoid to globular, 1.25-2½ by 1-2 cm, stigma little (less than 90°) excentric, often one or two sides of the fruit more or less flattened, red when ripe.
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A tree. It grows 54 m tall. The leaves are alternate and compound. The leaflets have long stalks. The flowers are 3 mm across. They are white. The fruit are about 1.5 cm long. They are purple and fleshy.
Primary, sometimes secondary, forests, usually on dry, rarely on temporarily inundated, grounds, up to 300 m altitude, but some records from 900-1950 m (Sumatra W. Coast, Mt Kinabalu). Fl. May-Aug., fr. Mainly Aug.-Febr.
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An emergent tree in primary, sometimes secondary, forests, usually on dry, rarely on temporarily inundated grounds, usually at elevations up to 300 metres, but there are some records from 900-1,950 metres.
It is a tropical plant. It grows in forests up to 700 m above sea level. It is usually on hills and ridges on sandy and clay soils.
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