Slender shrub or treelet, up to c. 5 m. Leaves (3-)4-6(-7)-jugate; leaflets elliptic to usually oblong or lanceolate, usually medium-sized, up to c. 18 by 6 cm, acute at the base, sparsely to rather closely, always distinctly dentate, very sparsely to moderately pubescent, without domatia. Panicles erect, spreading, usually slender and rather lax; primary side-axes (mostly?) not subtended by small leaves. Sepals and petals glabrous. Ovary glabrous. Endocarp subglo-bose, often somewhat ellipsoid, more or less oblique, 5-6 mm diam., with distinct, more or less prominent reticulum, with rather sharp and prominent median keel which at one end runs out into a small but distinct ventral processus; ventral pore somewhat sunken.