Small to medium-sized tree to 24 m high and 60 cm Ø, slightly fluted at base; twigs ± quadrangular; leaves opposite, digitate, with 3 – 5 fairly small leaflets, 9 – 12 x 1.5 – 3 cm, with ± 9 pairs of laterals in central leaflets; margins toothed in upper part, papery, gland-dotted; pit domatia present. See also PROTA database.

Shrub or small tree, to 6 m, found in the coastal zone or moist forest understory. Leaves digitate, opposite, usually with 5 leaflets, sessile or with short petiolules of 1 cm; big leaflets obovate, leathery, with ± 6 pairs of laterals and lax reticulaton.