Trees, deciduous, up to 10 m tall; bark purplish brown, smooth, with gray stripes. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate, 15-30 cm; stipules lanceolate, early deciduous; leaflets 9-15; blades ovate-lanceolate or broadly ovate, base cuneate, oblique except for terminal leaflet, both surfaces glabrous except abaxially pubescent on midrib or lateral veins when young, then glabrescent, apex acuminate; leaf scar conspicuous, semirounded or rounded. Flowers dioecious, in axillary cymes; rachis densely yellow-brown puberulent. Sepals 4 or 5, small, ovate or oblong, abaxially yellow-brown puberulent, imbricate. Petals as many as sepals, ovate or broadly ovate, both surfaces with midrib puberulent. Stamens 2 × as long as petals in males, shorter than petals in females, opposite sepals. Disk 4-or 5-lobed. Carpels 4 or 5, free. Druparium blue-green when ripe, globose, 6-8 × 5-7 mm, calyx persistent, testa thin. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun-Sep.
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A scrambling shrub or tree. It grows 8 m high and spreads 8 m wide. It loses its leaves during the year. The leaves are divided into leaflets along the stalk. The leaflets are opposite and have sharp teeth. They turn yellow to orange in autumn. The flowers are small and pale green. They are in loose clusters. The fruit are berry like. They are small and red.
It is a temperate plant. It needs a well-drained soil. It can grow in sun or light shade. In Pakistan it grows in mountains in mixed forest between 1,400-3,200 m altitude. It suits hardiness zones 3-9. Burnie Rhodo Gardens.
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Lowland woods and hills. Forests in the higher hills of the W. Himalayas, in ravines under forests of deodar, oak, fir etc, 1800-2400 metres.
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