Shrubs, to ca. 3 m tall. Branches usually pubescent when young, unarmed or with scattered short prickles. Petiole 4-12 cm, sometimes prickly, pubescent when young; petiolules 2-5 mm; leaflets (3-)5, oblong, oblanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, 3-8 × 1.5-2.5 cm, papery, abaxially pubescent when young, later glabrescent, adaxially glabrous or scattered hispid, base attenuate, margin serrate or biserrate, apex acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, a simple or compound umbel, borne on leafy shoots; umbels 1 to several, densely pubescent when young; peduncles 3-12 cm; pedicels 0.8-1.5 cm. Calyx entire, glabrous. Corolla yellowish green. Ovary 3-5-carpellate; styles free to base or nearly so. Fruit globose, 6-8 mm in diam.; styles persistent, ca. 2 mm. Fl. Jul, fr. Oct.
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