Slender shrub to 3 m high or small tree to 12 m high. Branchlets, leaf axes and peduncles sparsely or densely pale appressed villous; branchlets and petioles with minute lenticels. Leaf rachis 10–20 mm long; leaflets 1 or 2 pairs; lamina broadly cuneate, truncate or broadly 2-or 3-lobed, entire except juveniles, 1.3–3.5 cm long and wide, cuneate and oblique at base, glabrous; petiolule 1–2 mm long; petiole 2–25 mm long. Inflorescence raceme-like, 5–12.5 cm long, openly flowered; pedicels 1.5–4 mm long. Calyx lobes 4 mm long, puberulous outside. Petals ovate, 2–3 mm long; scales longer, densely hairy. Disc glabrous. Fruit obovoid, to 1.5 cm long, 2 cm diam., pubescent or puberulent; valves thin, puberulent inside.