Unarmed shrub or small tree up to 5 m. tall; trunk and main branches unusually thick, with a smooth pale silvery greyish brown bark, outer layer peeling off in irregular papery flakes; exudate colourless and odourless; branches tending to bend down, 4–8 mm. in diameter when young.. Leaves up to 20 cm. long including a petiole of 1.5–10 cm., (1)–3–5(–7)-foliolate, glabrous, puberulous or pubescent, the upper surface often concave with small blisters when mature; leaflets suborbicular, ovate or broadly elliptic, 5–11 cm. long, 3–8 cm. wide, entire; the terminal tapering to the base on a petiolule 1–4 mm. long, the laterals sessile, rounded or cordate at the base.. Flowers cream or pinkish, appearing with the young leaves.. Male flowers in interrupted subspicate panicles 3–5.5 cm. long on pedicels ± 1 mm. long; calyx pubescent, 2–3 mm. long on a saucer-shaped receptacle, the lobes ovate-triangular, as long as the tube; petals sparsely puberulous along the median line, ± 3 mm. long; filaments 1.0 and 0.5 mm., anthers 1.0 and 0.8 mm. long.. Female inflorescences similar but usually rather shorter.. Fruit ellipsoid to obovoid, puberulous, ± 13 × 11 × (4 + 5) mm.; pericarp 2-valved, fleshy, up to 3 mm. thick; pseudaril short, fleshy, cupular, very shallowly lobed; stone smooth, with gently convex faces, at first white but perhaps finally black, 7.5 × 4.5 × (1.5 + 3) mm.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 5 m tall. The bark is green or brown and peeling. The leaves have 5-7 leaflets along the stalk and these are 10 cm long by 2.5 cm wide and broadly oval. The flowers are very small. The fruit is round and 1 cm across.
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