Evergreen trees, usually more than 10 meters high, with 40 meters high, 1 meter diameter at breast height, and large trees with plate roots; Branchlets stout, puberulent, scattered pale lenticels. Leaves with stalks 15-30 cm or longer;

The leaflets are 4-5 pairs, rarely 3 or 6 pairs, thin leathery, oblong elliptic to oblong lanceolate, often asymmetric on both sides, 6-15 cm long and 2.5-5 cm wide, short and sharp at the top, sometimes slightly blunt, extremely asymmetric at the base, wide wedge-shaped to flat at the upper side, almost parallel to the leaf axis, narrow wedge-shaped at the lower side, dark green at the ventral side, glossy, green at the back, hairless at both sides;

Lateral veins 12-15 pairs, raised only on the abaxial surface; Petiolules usually do not exceed 5 mm in length.

Inflorescences large, much branched, terminal and axillary near the top of branches, densely covered with stellate hairs; Pedicel short;

Sepals nearly leathery, triangular ovate, about 2.5 mm long, both sides covered with brown yellow villi and clusters of stellate hairs; Petals milky white, lanceolate, nearly as long as sepals, only puberulent outside; Filaments are short and bristly. Fruit subglobose, 1.2-2.5 cm in diam., usually yellowish brown or sometimes grayish yellow, slightly rough outside, or with few slightly convex nodules;

The seeds are tawny and bright, all wrapped in fleshy aril. Flowering in spring and summer, fruiting in summer.