Woody climbers; branchlets purplish brown, densely yellow tomentose. Petiole and rachis densely yellow tomentose; leaf blade 20-40 cm, imparipinnately compound with 9-15 opposite leaflets; leaflet petiolule 2-3 mm, densely yellow tomentose; leaflet blade ovate or ovate-elliptic, 4-11 × 2-4.5 cm, membranous or papery, adaxially minutely yellow pubescent along midrib, abaxially appressed pubescent along midrib and with yellow tufts of hairs in axils of lateral veins, base slightly oblique, cordate or subcordate, margin serrate distally, rarely entire, apex acuminate or acute, lateral veins 6-8 pairs, prominent on both surfaces. Inflorescence paniculate, 20-35 cm, loosely branched, densely yellow tomentose; floral subtending bracts subulate, ca. 1 mm, pubescent. Pedicel slender, ca. 1.5 mm, glabrous; flower small, white. Calyx glabrous, lobes narrowly triangular, ca. 0.8 mm. Petals narrowly ovate, ca. 1.5 × 0.7 mm, acute. Stamens ca. 0.7 mm; filaments subulate. Disk 5-lobed. Ovary ovoid, ca. 1 mm, glabrous; style ca. 0.5 mm. Drupe ellipsoid, oblique, slightly compressed, ca. 10 × 8 mm, black at maturity. Seed compressed. Fl. Jan-Apr, fr. May-Jul.
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A shrub that often leans over. It can be a woody climber. It is hairy. The leaves are compound. They are 20-40 cm long with leaflets along the stalk and one at the end. The leaflets are 4-11 cm long by 2-5 cm wide. The flowers are small and white. They have a sweet scent. The fruit is fleshy and small and oblong. They are black when ripe. They are 10 mm long by 8 mm wide.
A subtropical plant. It grows in scrub forests in Assam up to 1,300 m above sea level. In southern China it grows in lowland hill forests between 500-1,800 m above sea level. In Yunnan.
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