Dioecious erect, rounded & compact shrub to 1.5 m high. Leaves paripinnate, 0.4–0.8 cm long excluding petiole, usually terminated by a small tooth or lobe; leaflets 4–12, linear, concave or channelled above, acute or obtuse, entire, narrowly cuneate at base, 4.5–9 mm long, 0.7–1 mm wide, puberulent or sometimes glabrous; petiole 2.5–6 mm long. Flowers solitary, paired or 3-together; pedicels 3.6–5.5 mm long. Sepals 4, ovate, 2–2.4 mm long, caducous. Stamens 8. Ovary glabrous. Capsule 4-winged, rarely 3-winged, broadly elliptic in lateral view, 9–11 mm long, 8.5–12.5 mm wide, glabrous; wings 2.5–4 mm wide, coriaceous; dehiscence septifragal.
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