Shrubs, to ca. 3 m tall. Branches brownish, with dense bristlelike spreading or reflexed prickles, rarely unarmed. Petiole 3-7 cm, glabrous, rarely prickly; petiolules short; leaflets (3-)5, obovate-oblong, rarely ovate, 2.5-8 × 1.5-3 cm, abaxially pubescent, adaxially glabrous or scattered hispid, secondary veins ca. 5 pairs, inconspicuous, base cuneate, margin irregularly biserrate, apex acute or shortly acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, a solitary umbel, borne on leafy shoots; peduncles 0.5-1(-2) cm, stout; pedicels 0.5-1.5 cm, glabrous or pubescent when young. Calyx subentire, glabrous. Corolla white. Ovary 5-carpellate; styles united for 1/5-1/2 their length. Fruit black at maturity, globose, ca. 8 mm. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Sep-Oct.
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A shrub. It grows 3 m tall. The branches are brown and have prickles. The leaves have 5 leaflets that are oblong and 3-8 cm long by 2-3 cm wide. There are hairs underneath. The flowers are in a group at the end of branches. The fruit are 8 mm across and round and black when ripe.
It is a temperate plant. It grows on mountain slopes between 1,300-3,500 m above sea level. In Yunnan.
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