Spindly trees; branchlets glabrous. Leaves odd-pinnate; petiole and rachis together 15-32 cm long, canaliculate above, minutely puberulent to glabrate; leaflets 7, opposite to subopposite, ovate to oval, abruptly acuminate apically, inequilateral and more or less rounded basally, the margins entire, the blade pellucid punctate throughout, subcoriaceous, minutely and sparingly puberulent below on the veins, 10-22 cm long, 5.5-8.5 cm wide, the petiolules canaliculate above, to 1 cm long. Staminate flowers unknown. Carpellate panicles stout, axillary, minutely puberulent, 7.5-16.5 cm long, to 10 cm wide in fruit. Carpellate flowers with the pedicels stout, minutely puberulent, 4-7 mm long in fruit; sepals 5, triangular, less than 1 mm long; carpels 3(-4), connate. Follicles (1-)3(-4), subglobose, sessile, more or less beaked, connate basally, punctate glandular, glabrous, ca. 5 mm in diameter, red at maturity; seeds subglobose, black, lustrous, ca. 5 mm in diameter.
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