A moderate-sized to large deciduous tree with spreading crown and stout branches, attaining a height up to 24 m. Bark grey or whitish, smooth, exfoliating in irregular rounded plates; leaves imparipinnate, 25-45 cm. long, crowded at the ends of branches: leaflets 7-9, oblong-ovate, 7.5-15 cm x 2.5-5 cm.; flowers small, yellowish or purplish, unisexual: male fascicled, in slender compound racemes female in simple pubescent racemes; fruit red, compressed, reniform, 1-seeded.

Stimulates the cardiovascular and central nervous systems, hypothermic and anticancer (leaf and stem bark); astringent, acrid (bark); antibacterial (plant).

Lanosterol (heartwood); DL-epi-catechin, (+)-leucocyanidin, physcion, physcion anthranol B and beta-sitosterol (bark); quercetin and ellagic acid (leaf and flower); chuytyl ferulate (root).

Indigestion, toothache and debility (bark decoction); sprains and body aches (leaf); as a lotion for bruises, wounds, sores, and ulcers (due to leprosy) (bark); in asthma and as a cordial to women during lactation (gum); in sprains and bruises, local swellings, pains of body and in elephantiasis (boiled leaf)

Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.