Small semi-herbaceous shrub up to 3 m. Leaves 2-to 4-pinnate, leaflets numerous. Petiole 2-8 (-15) cm long; stipules a narrow wing, 2-4 by 0.3-0.5 cm, scar rather broad, similarly long; rachis (2½-) 5-25 (-42) cm. leaflets ovate to ovate-oblong, less frequently elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, (2-) 4-8 (-14) by (0.3-) 1.5-4(-6) cm, glabrous, or less frequently with small hairs along the nerves, chartaceous; pearl glands apparently absent from the leaflets; margin crenate to shallowly serrate; apex acute to shortly acuminate; base rounded to acute; nerves 5-10 pairs, sometimes with minute hairs; petiolules 2-5(-10) mm, often winged. Inflorescences (4-) 8-14 (-16) cm long, rusty pubescent, generally compact; bracts deltoid-triangular, inconspicuous; peduncle 3-8 (-16) cm, main branches numerous, ultimate branches short. Flowers 5-merous, bright red. Calyx 2-2½ by 1½-2½ mm, glabrous; lobes 1 by 1 mm. Corolla tube + staminodial lobes 2-3 mm; corolla lobes 1½-2½ by 1½ mm. Staminodial tube 1.2-2 mm long; upper free part 1-1¼ mm, lobes shallowly retuse or cleft, sinuses deep ¼-¾ mm; upper part 0.3-0.5 mm. Ovary 4-6-celled, style 1-2 mm. Filaments 1 mm, anthers 1 mm. Fruit 8-10 mm ø, dark red; seeds c. 4 by 4 mm, usually 6, rumination outline simple, endosperm simply ruminate.
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A shrub which keeps growing from year to year. It is 1-3 m high. The stems are somewhat woody. The leaves are large and dark-green. The leaves are compound and twice divided. The whole leaf is 40 cm long. This is divided into 2-3 segments which is then divided into 2-3 leaflets. A leaflet may be 6.5-20 cm long by 3.5-7 cm wide. There are teeth around the edge. Flowers are small and deep pink or red. They are 0.3-0.5 cm across. Many flowers occur together on large flower arrangements up to 15 cm across. The fruit are flattened lobed berries. They are 0.6-0.8 cm across. They are bright red and turn black when ripe. The fruit are edible.
A tropical plant. They grow naturally in coastal monsoon vine-forests. It grows in low, wet areas of mixed deciduous forest in Thailand. In the Cairns Botanical Gardens. It suits hardiness zones 10-12.
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Dry monsoon forest, savannah and secondary vegetation from sea-level up to elevations of 500 metres. In secondary regrowth and scrub at elevations up to 500 metres. Also found on limestone.
Dry monsoon forest, savannah, and secondary vegetation, up to 500 m.
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