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Shrubs or small trees, 1.5-10 m tall, andromonoecious. Branches with short, straight prickles less than 6 mm. Leaves 2-pinnately compound, with a pair of accessory leaflets at each division of rachis; petiole longer than 30 cm, densely yellow-brown tomentose, prickly or unarmed; petiolules 0-5 mm; leaflets 7-9 per pinna, ovate to broadly oblong, 5.5-15.5 × 3-10 cm, subleathery, abaxially densely tomentose, adaxially densely pubescent, secondary veins 7-14 pairs, prominent abaxially, subconspicuous adaxially, tertiary veins conspicuous, base rounded to subcordate, margin mucronate-serrulate, apex acute to acuminate. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of heads or dense umbels, unarmed; primary axis to ca. 60 cm; secondary axes 40-65 cm, densely yellow-brown tomentose; ultimate axes with a terminal umbel of bisexual flowers and 1 to several lateral umbels of male flowers; bracts persistent, oblong, ca. 3 mm; umbels 7-12-flowered; pedicels 0.5-2 cm or flowers sessile in heads. Ovary 5-carpellate; styles 5, free. Fruit globose to subglobose, 3-4 mm in diam.; styles persistent, radiating. Fl. Aug-Oct, fr. Oct-Dec.
A shrub or small tree. It grows 2-10 m tall. The branches have short prickles. The leaves are twice divided and have leaflets along the stalk. There are 7-9 leaflets in each pinna. They are oval to oblong and 6-16 cm long by 3-10 cm wide. They are hairy. The flowers are in a group of heads at the ends of branches.
