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A slender tree. It grows up to 5 m tall. The stem is thick and greenish. The bark peels in small thin papery flakes. The branches often droop. They are slightly hairy when young and have spines at the tip. The leaves are composed of three leaflets. The leaves have a smell of resin when crushed. The leaflets are egg shaped and vary in size. The end leaflet is the largest. The leaflets narrow towards the base. The leaves are shiny and can be bright green or grey-green. The midrib is yellow and raised underneath the leaf. Leaves can be 7.5 cm long and 5 cm wide. The leaflets do not have stalks but the leaves have long slender stalks. The flowers grow on short side shoot. They flowers are small. The fruit are round or oval and about 1.3 cm across. They are green but turn red as they ripen and split to show the seed inside. There is a fleshy layer around the seed which has 4 wing like arms.
Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole up to 4·5 cm. long, sparsely pilose; leaflets up to 6 × 3·5 cm., terminal usually very broadly obovate, the laterals smaller and broadly elliptic to rotund, apex shortly apiculate or rounded, margins finely crenate-serrate but entire towards the base, base cuneate, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs.
Polygamous or dioecious, many-stemmed shrub or small tree, up to 8 m high. Branchlets spine-tipped, with a few scattered short hairs. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflet margins entire or distal half finely crenate-serrate. Flowers yellowish green.
Fruit c. 1·3 × 1·2 cm., subglobose, minutely apiculate, glabrous; pseudaril with 4 rather thick and slightly winged arms; endocarp c. 1 × 0·8 cm., smooth, both faces deeply convex.
Flowers appearing with the leaves or before the leaves, in clusters in short side-shoots or (male) in short dichasial cymes; pedicels c. 2 mm. long, glabrous.
Tree up to 9 m. tall; bark smooth, green, peeling; branches cinereous-pubescent when young, often spiny.
Calyx 2 mm. long, campanulate, lobed to half-way.
Stamen-filaments subterete.
Petals 3·5 mm. long.
Disk-lobes 4.
