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*Evergreen or deciduous, dioecious, medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35(–50) m tall; bole straight or poorly shaped, branchless part usually short but sometimes up to 20 m long, up to 80(–170) cm in diameter, sometimes with steep buttresses up to 3 m high; bark surface fissured and scaly with small thick shaggy scales, reddish brown to purplish brown, inner bark fibrous, spongy, pink, exuding a red sap; crown dense and rounded.
*Leaves arranged spirally, compound with 3 leaflets, glabrous; stipules oblong-triangular, 7–22 mm long, papery, falling early; petiole 8–20 cm long; petiolules long and slender, longest in terminal leaflet; leaflets elliptical to ovate, 6–16 cm × 3–10 cm, base rounded to broadly cuneate, apex acuminate, margin finely toothed, pinnately veined. *Inflorescence an axillary panicle up to 27 cm long.
*Flowers unisexual, regular, 5-merous, small, greenish, corolla and disk absent; male flowers with sepals fused at base, hooded, stamens free, opposite to the calyx lobes, ovary rudimentary; female flowers with sepals falling early, stamens strongly rudimentary, ovary superior, globose, 3(–4)-celled, style short, with 3 long stigmas.
*Fruit a globose drupe 1–1.5 cm in diameter, bluish black, with a horny to leathery skin and fleshy pulp, 3–6-seeded.
