An epiphytic or terrestrial climber or shrub up to 10 m tall. Leaves palmately (4-)5-7-foliolate, petiole 10-12 cm long, leaflets ovate-elliptical to obovate-elliptical, 7-18 cm x 3-10 cm, apex acute or obtuse, entire, leathery, glabrous, petiolules 1.5-6 cm long. Inflorescence with some branches as long as or shorter than the main axis, glabrescent, 10-20 cm long; flowers 5-merous, very small, in 10-flowered umbellules which are arranged racemosely along the branches. Fruit globose to ovoid, usually 5-6-locular, yellow or orange becoming black.

Bechic (bark); vulnerary (resin); antiscorbutic (decoction of leaves).

PROSEA (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Foundation

The wood has been chewed to relieve toothache. The roots mixed with rice are eaten to cure dropsy.