Tree to 11 m high. Branchlets 6–10 mm diam., rusty brown-tomentose towards apex with crispate hairs. Leaf rachis 11–23 cm long; leaflets 4–10, elliptic to ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate to obtuse, entire or crenulate-serrulate towards apex, oblique at base, 9–23 cm long, 5–11 cm wide, glabrous or lower surface puberulous; petiolule 0.5–1.5 cm long; petiole 4.5–18 cm long. Inflorescence spike-like, 6.5–28 cm long; peduncle tomentose; cymules subsessile; bracts to 8 mm long; pedicels 2–4 mm long. Calyx to 3.5 mm long, pubescent outside. Petals 2–2.5 mm long; scales ciliate. Filaments to 2.5 mm long. Fruit subglobose or broadly ellipsoidal, keeled at sutures, 1.5–2.2 cm long, red; valves fleshy, villous inside. Aril small, at base of seed, fleshy, orange-yellow.