Dioecious spreading shrub to 1.5 m high. Leaves imparipinnate, 1.4–3.8 cm long excluding petiole; lateral leaflets 10–16, rarely to 26, narrowly angular-obovate to narrowly obovate or sometimes linear-oblanceolate or ovate, acute, entire, revolute, cuneate at base, 4–9 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, densely hirsute; the terminal leaflet small, lobe-like, otherwise similar to laterals; petiole 4–5.5 mm long. Flowers solitary; pedicel 3.5–6.5 mm long, rarely to 9 mm. Sepals 4 or 5, ovate or sometimes ovate-lanceolate, 1.6–4.5 mm long, persistent. Stamens 8–10, rarely 11 or 12. Ovary hirsute. Capsule 4-winged, transversely to broadly elliptic or broadly obovate in lateral view, 14–21 mm long, 15.5–18 mm wide, rarely to 22 mm, glabrous or rarely with a few hairs on wing margins; wings 3.5–6 mm wide, coriaceous; dehiscence septifragal.
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