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Evergreen or semi-evergreen tree up to 18 m tall, but in southern Africa usually smaller; crown very dense, widespreading in open. Leaves up to 280 mm long. Leaflets 9-11, up to 150 x 50 mm; apex of lateral leaflets rounded, emarginate or broadly acute, without a hollow curve; lower surface sparsely to densely puberulous or tomentellous with short weak curly or flexuose hairs, usually drying olive-green or pale yellow-brown; lateral nerves usually in 11-18 closely set pairs. Inflorescence usually condensed and many-flowered. Petals usually 9-14 mm long. Staminal tube usually 8-11 mm long. Fruit (ripe but unopened) 18-25 mm in diameter, usually crowded at the ends of the branchlets.
Leaves imparipinnate; petiole and rhachis up to 28 cm. long, tomentellous or densely puberulous; leaflets up to 15.5 × 5 cm., usually smaller, opposite or alternate, (3) 4–5-jugate, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rarely narrowly elliptic or lanceolate-elliptic, not or scarcely broadest near the apex, apex nearly always rounded or emarginate, very rarely acute, apiculate or subacuminate, base rounded or cuneate, upper surface drying olive-green or pale brown, lateral nerves in (10–12) 13–16 (19) pairs, lower surface densely puberulous with short curly hairs, especially on the nerves; petiolules up to 5 mm. long.
A large tree. It is evergreen. It grows 8-20 m high. The crown is round and widespreading. The leaves have 4-5 pairs of leaflets and one at the end. They are oblong and 12 cm long by 5.5 cm wide. They are dark green and glossy above and have short hairs underneath. The leaf stalk is 7-12 cm long. The flowers are creamy-green. The petals are 1.6 cm long. They occur in sort branched heads in the axils of leaves. These are about 5 cm long. The fruit is an almost round creamy-brown capsule. It is 2.5-3 cm across. They split into 2-3 valves. The seeds are black and covered with a red seed coat (aril).
Filaments usually 7–10 mm. long, united for about 1/2 of their length, sparsely puberulous outside, densely villous in the upper half inside. Appendages deltate, nearly 3/4 as long as anthers; anthers 2 mm. long, slightly apiculate, antherodes a little smaller, not producing pollen.
Capsule 1·8 × 1·8–2·5 × 2·5 cm., obovoid-globose, with a long stipe (0·4) 0·6–1 cm. long, slightly sulcate, surface transversely wrinkled, fulvous-tomentellous, opening by (2) 3-valves; seed black, almost completely concealed by the scarlet aril.
Medium-sized handsome evergreen tree 8–20 (25) m. tall, with a wide umbrageous crown when growing in the open; bark dark grey or dark brown, rough or smooth, foliage very dark green, glossy.
Ovary (2) 3-locular; style usually 6–8 mm. long, columnar, densely setulose-puberulous almost to the apex; style-head capitate with a crateriform apical (?) stigmatic region.
Flowers pale green, pale yellow-green or pale yellow, fragrant, borne in congested cymes in leaf-axils or towards the base of the current-year’s shoot.
Evergreen tree, up to 18 m high. Leaflets 9-11, up to 150 x 50 mm. Capsule sharply differentiated, with a 5-10 mm-long stipe. Flowers light green.
Calyx usually 3–5·5 mm. long, tomentellous, lobed almost to the base, lobes subcircular, imbricate.
Disk glabrous, thin, with 10 deltate teeth alternating with the filaments.
Petals 7 (10) –15·5 (16) mm. long, linear, tomentellous on both surfaces.
Pistillode with vestigial ovules.
Pedicels very short.
