Medium-sized evergreen tree to 27 m tall with rounded bushy crown. Leaves pinnately compound without terminal leaflets, leaflets 1-6 pairs, 5-28 cm long, ovate to obovate. Flowers small, 1-2.1 mm long, petals almost absent, clustered in branched terminal and axillary branches. Fruits c. 6 cm long, ellipsoid to subglobular, covered with 0.5-2 cm long soft spiny appendages, red to yellow when ripe, seeds covered with translucent sarcotesta.