*A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 40 m tall, bole up to 80 cm in diameter, usually buttressed, sometimes with stilt roots; stipules .*Stipules caducous, inserted on the petiole, auricle-shaped; leaves with 5-7 leaflets, leaflets abruptly shortly acuminate at apex, margin entire, glabrous, with 8-14 pairs of secondary veins; inflorescence .*Inflorescence terminal, male one laxly paniculate, female one more slender; male .*Male flowers 4-5.5 mm long, female flowers 10 mm long, stamens 6; fruit .*Fruit flattened ellipsoid, c. 35 mm × 23 mm × 15 mm, glabrous. ''C. salomonense'' subsp. ''papuanum'' occurs in rain forest up to 400 m altitude.