Shrub c. 2 m, glabrous when mature, setulose on young parts. Leaves clustered at the ends of the branches; petiole to 16 cm, channelled above, 4 mm broad, with a clasping base prolonged upwards as a stipular ligule 1.5-2 cm long, and with entire or fimbriate crests encircling the lower part of the petiole; blade simple, oblong-ovate, occasionally with a small triangular lobe on each side below the middle, to 46 by 17(-24) cm, base rounded to truncate, apex shortly acuminate, margin serrate, midrib prominent, principal lateral veins c. 3-4 cm apart (at broadest part of leaf). Inflorescence a terminal compound umbel, hemispherical, c. 13 cm ø; peduncle 3-4 cm, c. 6 mm wide, bearing fimbriate, lanceolate bracts (to 2 cm long) along its length and around and among the primary rays; primary rays c. 20, rather short and stout (16-20 by 3-4 mm) with small opposite caducous bracts at apex, each ray ending in three branches; the central branch c. 4 mm long; sterile flowers unknown; the two lateral branches 3.5-4 cm long, articulated below the middle, terminating in a head of c. 20-30 sessile or subsessile flowers. Flowers unknown. Fruits crowded in a spherical head, drupes c. 5 mm ø (when dry) on pedicels c. 1 mm, 4-ribbed, pyrenes 4, cartilaginous; endosperm with faint reticulate ridging.
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