Dioecious erect shrub or small tree to 5 m high. Leaves imparipinnate, 7.2–14.5 cm long excluding petiole, rarely to 20.5 cm; leaflets 19–31, rarely as few as 13, lanceolate, usually oblique, acute, entire, revolute, cuneate at base, 17–24.5 mm long, rarely to 42 mm long, 4–7.5 mm wide, puberulent; petiole 18.5–30 mm long, rarely to 47.5 mm. Flowers in many-flowered axillary cymes; pedicels 2.2–7 mm long. Sepals 3 or 4, lanceolate to broadly ovate or broadly oblong, 1.8–2.7 mm long, caducous. Stamens 8. Ovary sparsely pubescent. Capsule 3-winged, depressed-obovate in lateral view, 7.5–10.5 mm long, 13.5–22.5 mm wide, glabrous; wings 4.5–8 mm wide, membranous; dehiscence septifragal.