Tree with bark, brown, rough, longitudinally fissured; leaves alternate or subverticillate, exstipulate, usually paripinnate or even pinnate, 15-30 cm long; leaflets 2-3 pairs, opposite, coriaceous, oblong, glabrous above, tomentose beneath, with short stellate hairs, acuminate or emarginated, entire, base obtuse; petiolules short, tomentose; flowers white, hairy in axillary or terminal, pubescent panicles long up to 15 cm; pedicels very short; sepals 5, elliptic, small, obtuse; petals 5, lanceolate, clawed, margin ciliate with woolly scales near the claw; disc annular, concave with raised, fleshy, hirsute edges; stamens 8, filaments, pilose, anthers versatile; pislillode present in male; ovary entire, hairy, ovoid, tri locular, sometimes 2 or 4 locular, densely tomentose, stigma tri-fid; drupes indehiscent, fleshy, generally 2-3 lobed, yellowish-brown, rusty pubescent or glabrescent, oblong or globose; seed smooth, hard.