Erect shrub or small tree, 2–9 m high; branchlets sericeous or glabrescent. Leaves petiolate, spathulate to broadly elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 5.5–15 cm long, 23–60 mm wide, flat, glabrescent or somewhat sericeous, apex acuminate; longitudinal veins (1–)3(–4), prominent; reticulate veins prominent. Inflorescence a spherical umbel with c. 100–200 flowers; pedicel 8–9.5 mm long, glabrous; perianth cream, turning pink or reddish, glabrous; pistil 14–18 mm long; pollen presenter conical. Fruit 1–10 per axil, obliquely ovate-elliptic, 2.2–3.6 cm long, not keeled on lower suture line, not or obscurely beaked; horns lacking; seed not occupying whole valve face, ovate, 14–22 mm long; wing broadly extending down both sides of body (narrower on one side) and sometimes narrowly around the base. Flowers Mar.–Jul.