Trees to 6 m tall. Young branchlets sparsely pubescent, unarmed or with few spines. Petiole 1-1.2 cm, stout, adaxially with short pubescence when young; leaflet blade narrowly elliptic, 14-18 × 5-6 cm, thickly papery, secondary veins numerous and conspicuous, base broadly cuneate, margin entire, apex narrowly obtuse to shortly acuminate. Ovary 3- or 4-loculed, with 1 or 2 ovules per locule. Infructescences axillary, racemose, 1-1.5 cm, thinly pubescent. Fruit subglobose, 2.5-3 cm in diam., with oil glands conspicuously sunken when dry; outer part of pericarp (exocarp and mesocarp) ca. 1 mm thick. Seeds broadly ellipsoid and slightly flat, 1.6-2.2 × ca. 1.5 cm; embryo solitary. Fr. Sep.

Moist forests in valleys; 200-300 m. SE Yunnan (Hekou) [N Vietnam].