Tree up to 10 m. tall or shrub; bark grey, scaling in large flakes; branchlets tomentellous when young. 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. 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. Flowers greenish, sweet-scented; pedicels 2–2·5(4) mm. long, tomentose. Sepals 4–6, 2–2·5 × 1·5 mm., ovate-oblong, tomentose outside, glabrous within, connate at the base. Disk 1·3 mm. in diam., annular. 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. Fruit orange or yellow, up to 3 × 2 cm., obovoid-ellipsoid to subglobose, tomentose, often beaked by the persistent style. Seed 1·5 × 1 cm., ellipsoid.