Trees 4-15 m tall. Branchlets grayish black. Leaves 5-11-foliolate; leaflet blades subsessile, obliquely lanceolate to ovate, 2-6 × 1-3 cm, dark brownish black when dry, base oblique, margin crenate, apex obtuse. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, 3-7 cm; bracts subulate. Calyx lobes broadly ovate. Petals ca. 4 mm at anthesis. Stamens 10; filaments slightly expanded in ± their basal half, geniculate, longer than anthers. Disk elongated. Ovary globose, glabrous. Fruit pale yellow, globose, 8-10 mm in diam., 1-or 2-seeded. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Jun-Jul.