Tree up to 25 m high, dbh up to 35 cm; with buttresses. Twigs terete, 3-4 mm diam., dark red-brown to blackish, glabrous. Leaves 1-or 2-jugate; petiole subterete, 3-9 cm long by c. 1.5 mm broad; petiolules above flattened, 5-12 mm long. Leaflets opposite to alternate, ovate to elliptic, 6-15 by 2-6 cm, index 2-3.5, straight to subfalcate, variably porgamentaceous, glabrous, with some small glands along the basal part of the midrib beneath, not glaucous below; base hardly to distinctly oblique, acute or rounded, attenuate; apex rounded to acute; nerves 1-2 cm apart, spreading, rather strongly curved or at first nearly straight, ending free; intersecondary nerves ± strongly developed; reticulation rather coarse, prominulous on both sides. Inflorescences pseudoterminal, 6-15 cm long, sparsely branched, rather densely appress-edly shortly yellowish brown hairy. Sepals broad-ovate, 1.3-2.25 by 1.2-1.6 mm, outside sparsely appressed-hairy, inside the same to glabrous. Petals long-clawed, 1.6-2.5 by 1-1.5 mm; claw and base of plate outside sparsely appressed-hairy to glabrous; blade elliptic, inside glabrous, with 2 scales or sometimes 1 entire scale. Stamens 8 or 9; filaments c. 6 mm long, woolly in the lower 2/5; anthers 1.1-1.4 mm long, subglabrous to fairly densely appressed-hairy. Fruits triangular-ellipsoid, 2.75-3 by c. 2 cm, abruptly narrowed into a 0.5-0.75 cm long stipe, ± apiculate, glabrous, orange; wall c. 3 mm thick, fleshy; endocarp densely woolly. Seeds unknown.