Small tree, up to 15 m. Leaves dispersed along the shoots; petiole to 20 cm, striate, with a small basal sheath; leaflets 5, or (below the inflorescence) 3 or 1, petiolule of the central leaflet to 6 cm, of the lateral leaflets much shorter (c. 1 cm); blade elliptic or ovate, up to 20 by 8 cm, base rounded or broadly cuneate, apex acuminate, margin denticulate or nearly entire, membranous or chartaceous. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of umbellules, with a stout rachis to 20 cm, terminating in an umbellule and bearing lateral secondary branches (c. 12 cm) which also terminate in umbellules and bear racemosely arranged tertiary branches (c. 4 cm) which terminate in umbellules; umbellules terminating the primary and secondary branches with hermaphrodite flowers, those terminating the tertiary branches smaller and apparently mostly functionally male. Flowers of small umbellules usually 5-merous, of larger umbellules usually 6-7-merous, pedicels c. 1 cm at anthesis, slightly elongating in fruit. Calyx rim obscurely dentate. Petals of terminal flowers c. 3 mm long, fleshy. Ovary subglobose, c. 2 mm high; disk fleshy surmounted by the style arms which become divergent in their upper part at anthesis. Fruit enlarging to a drupe 2 by 1 cm with a persistent calyx rim and a prominent conical stylopodium tapering into the stylar column bearing the recurved distal parts of the styles.
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