Dioecious or rarely polygamo-dioecious spreading shrub to 2 m high. Leaves paripinnate, 1.3–3 cm long excluding petiole, terminated by a small tooth or lobe; leaflets usually 6–10, rarely 12, oblong to obovate, cuneate at base, 9–12 mm long, rarely to 20 mm, 2–5 mm wide, adpressed-pubescent; acute or mucronate, often 2-or 3-toothed at apex; margin entire or slightly sinuate, recurved; petiole 4–14 mm long. Flowers usually in axillary few-flowered cymes, sometimes solitary; pedicels 8–13 mm long. Sepals 4–6, lanceolate to ovate, 2–3.6 mm long, caducous. Stamens 10–12. Ovary pubescent. Capsule 5-or 6-winged, ellipsoidal, greatly inflated, 18–26 mm long, 17–25 mm wide, sparsely pubescent or glabrous; wings 1–2.5 mm wide, membranous; not readily dehiscent.
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