Medium-sized tree 9–30 m. tall; bark yellow or brown, smooth, finely fissured or concentrically-flaking, mottled yellow and grey, slash pink; twigs initially rusty- or tawny-pubescent. Petiole 3–7 cm. long, angled, pubescent; rhachis 4–10 cm. long;petiolules 1–7 mm. long; leaflets in (1–)2–4 pairs, opposite, the uppermost pair largest, blade narrowly elliptic or elliptic, 4–15 cm. long, 2.5–6.5 cm. wide, emarginate or rounded at the apex; asymmetrically cuneate at the base, entire, thickened, thick-textured, glabrous apart from the midrib, microscopically glandular on both surfaces, shining above, matt beneath; lateral veins in 10–16 pairs, indistinct, venation finely reticulate. Inflorescences 4–12.5 cm. long; flowers yellow in cymose clusters, scented; pedicels 2–3 mm. long, increasing to 5 mm. in fruit. Calyx cup 0.5 mm. long; lobes broadly triangular, 0.2 mm. long, densely pubescent. Stamens 8; filaments in the bud straight and very short, at maturity 3 mm. long, pilose or glabrous; anthers oblong, pilose or glabrous. Style shortly 3-fid. Fruit golden yellow, usually of one developed globose mericarp, 1–2.1 cm. in diameter, shortly velvety pubescent, with the abortive carpels remaining attached to the base. Seed chestnut brown, globose or ovoid, 1–1.2 cm. in diameter; aril red, loosely covering seed. Fig. 10.
