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A shrub or small tree. It only has a few branches. It grows about 6-9 m tall. The bark is grey and there are heart shaped leaf scars. The leaves are alternate and usually crowded near the ends of the younger twigs. The leaves are 10-65 cm long and compound. They have 2-6 pairs of leaflets along the stalk and one at the end. The flowering shoots are 5-35 cm long. The male and female flowers are separate on separate flowering shoots. The flowers are very small and green.
Leaves 15–60 cm. long, with 3–5 pairs of leaflets, pubescent above and below, most densely so on the nerves below, rarely almost glabrous; petiole 8–15 cm. long; leaflet-laminas 4–13 × 2–6 cm., oblong to narrowly ovate, ± opposite, apex subacute, margins entire to shallowly repand, base asymmetric truncate to cuneate; petiolules up to 5 mm. long.
Inflorescences 12–35 cm. long, andromonoecious, of spiciform panicles bearing distant glomerules (or rarely short spiciform racemes) along the main axis, axillary, borne towards the end of the young shoots, pubescent; bracts subulate, pubescent.
Gynoecium (absent in the male flowers) in the bisexual flowers consisting of ± free, ovoid, usually glabrous carpels pressed together at first with the stigmas bent outwards in a cruciform arrangement.
Shrub or small tree to 5 m. tall; young twigs stout, pubescent, older twigs with roughly triangular leaf-scars 5–10 × 4–9 mm.; pubescence golden-brown.
Fruit developing from 1–4 of the carpels in each flower and consisting of red ovoid drupaceous mericarps c. 10 × 6 mm. acute at the apex.
Petals up to 2 mm. long, similar to the sepals, pubescent at least outside.
Sepals c. 1 mm. long, ovate, pubescent at least outside.
Stamens c. 1 mm. long; filaments glabrous.
Disk pulviniform, margin 4-lobed.
Flowers not opening widely.
