Leaves up to 15 cm. long; rhachis fulvous-tomentose; petiole up to 6 cm. long, fulvous-tomentose; leaflets 3–5-jugate, subsessile; leaflet-lamina up to 8 × 4 cm., elliptic to oblong-elliptic, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, tomentose when young, later usually pubescent on both surfaces but rarely glabrescent except on some of the nerves below, apex blunt to rounded, margin crenate to crenate-serrate or sometimes almost entire, base rounded to subcordate; lateral nerves 5–8 pairs.
A medium sized tree. It grows up to 10 m high. The bark is dark brown, scaly and flaky. The leaves have 3-5 pairs of leaflets. They are oval and 4-8 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. They are leathery with net veins. The flowers are small. They are sweetly scented. They are in heads about 2 cm across. The fruit are oval and 3 cm long by 2 cm wide. They are velvety and fleshy. They are bright orange when mature.
Inflorescence a congested fulvous-tomentose subglobose paniculate thyrse c. 2 cm. in diam.; peduncle up to 12–20 mm. long in male plants, fulvous-tomentose.
Fruit orange or yellow, up to 3 × 2 cm., obovoid-ellipsoid to subglobose, tomentose, often beaked by the persistent style.
Tree up to 10 m. tall or shrub; bark grey, scaling in large flakes; branchlets tomentellous when young.
Sepals 4–6, 2–2·5 × 1·5 mm., ovate-oblong, tomentose outside, glabrous within, connate at the base.
Flowers greenish, sweet-scented; pedicels 2–2·5(4) mm. long, tomentose.
Stamens 4–7; filaments 4 mm. long, glabrous; anthers 0·5–0·8 mm. long.
Ovary pubescent to tomentellous; style 1·5–2 mm. long.
Disk 1·3 mm. in diam., annular.
Seed 1·5 × 1 cm., ellipsoid.