Trees 6-8 m tall. Bark gray, smooth. Leaves 7-15-foliolate or 5-11-foliolate; petiolules 2-5 mm; leaflet blades alternate to subopposite, elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate, inequilateral, both surfaces dark green, margin entire, apex acuminate. Flower buds pale green, oblong. Calyx lobes ca. 1 mm. Petals pale yellow, 5-10 mm, outside densely pubescent. Disk columnar. Stigma capitate. Fruit ellipsoid to obovoid, 1-1.5 × 0.6-1.2 cm, 1- or 2-seeded. Seed coat membranous. Fl. Feb-Apr, fr. Jul-Sep. 2n = 18.

Moist montane forests, valley forests, maritime thickets in sandy soil; near sea level to 2000 m. SW Guangdong, Guangxi, S and SW Guizhou, Hainan, SE Xizang, S Yunnan [Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam].