Tree to c. 15 m tall, with dark greyish bark. Shoots and lvs reddish brown-tomentose when young, soon becoming grey. Lvs pinnate and fern-like, to c. 30 cm long (including petiole 2-6 cm long); rachis and petiole greyish tomentose with some reddish brown hairs; pinnae (8)-12- c. 20 cm long, deep green and glabrate on upper surface, with greyish white appressed tomentum on lower surface (sparsely hairy and green in juvenile stage), entire and linear to lanceolate or pinnatisect with 1-4 narrow to broadly triangular lobes (narrower in juvenile lvs); apex of entire pinnae and lobes of pinnatisect pinnae acute or mucronate. Infl. a secund, racemose panicle, 10-16 cm long, glabrous except for lower part of rachis. Pedicels 1.3-2 cm long, filiform. Perianth 9-12 mm long, orange or yellow-orange; limb ± ellipsoid, soon revolute under tube. Nectary lobed. Ovary glabrous; stipe c. 3 mm long. Style c. 2 cm long, with a small somewhat oblique cone at apex. Fr. 1.5-2 cm long, very oblique. Seed winged all round.