Tree to 11 m high. Branchlets, leaf axes and peduncles rusty brown crispate tomentose to glabrescent. Leaf rachis 4.3–8 cm long; leaflets 6–12, opposite to alternate, narrowly ovate-oblong or elliptic, acuminate to acute, serrate or serrulate, obtuse at base, 2–5.5 cm long, 1.2–2.5 cm wide, glabrous above, puberulent below, thinly coriaceous, finely reticulate; petiole 1.5–3.2 cm long. Inflorescence ramiflorous or axillary, raceme-like, 5–10 mm long; pedicels 3–5 mm long. Calyx 2 mm long, lobes narrowly ovate. Petals ovate, acuminate. Disc lobed. Filaments 2.5–3.5 mm long. Fruit transversely ellipsoidal or obovoid, 1.2–2.3 cm long, 1.2–2.5 cm diam., 2-lobed, 2-locular, orange-yellow; valves 2, thin, silky inside. Seed large, oblong, orange-brown, dull; aril minute, yellow.