Erect, perennial herb, 0.5-1.4 m high; mostly sparsely pilose. Leaves bi-or triternate. Leaflets ovate or broadly trullate, simple or 1x or 2x pinnately lacerate, apices acute to attenuate, margins thickened, acutely serrate. Scape exceeding leaves. Inflorescences 14-58(-200)-flowered umbels, cream-coloured to greenish white. Ovaries shorter or as long as styles. Receptacle steeply conical to globular. Flowering time Oct.-Feb. Fruit fleshy drupelets, black when ripe, glabrous to pilose.
Like A. cordata but leaves pinnate or bipinnate, leaflets coarsely toothed, never cordate. Flowers in scapose umbels, white or greenish white.