Many-stemmed and much branched glabrous shrub up to tall; flowering branchlets 1-2 mm diam., lightly ribbed from leaf-bases, internodes ±2-3.5 cm long, pith solid. Leaves glabrous, digitately 3-5-foliolate; leaflets up to 4 x 2 cm, obovate, serrate especially in upper part, midvein raised below with 3-4 not very strong pinnately placed more or less alternating laterals on each side, veinlets reticulate; petiole up to 3 cm long, expanded with thinner wings towards the base where it 3/4 encircles the stem; on lower leaves up to a quarter the length of petiole is sheath, which may occasionally have slight auricles at top, on smaller upper leaves the petiole is almost wholly sheath. Umbel compound, usually solitary terminating a branch, sometimes with 2 or 3 just below it on short lateral branchlets, 7-8 cm diam., ±12-15-rayed. Involucre apparently of a number of linear-lanceolate entire bracts ±8 mm long, but already mostly fallen at flowering time. Umbellules on peduncles ±2.5 cm long at flowering, lengthening to ±3 cm in fruit; the occurrence of tertiary umbellules mixed with the individual flowers is not uncommon; flowers mixed hermaphrodite and male (i.e. plant andromonoecious). Involucel similar to involucre but bracts only ±4 mm long, also withering early. Pedicels 4-7 mm. Sepals deltoid, acute, 0-5 mm long. Petals 2.5 x 1.25 mm, ± ovate-acuminate, inrolled from just below the middle, the acuminate tip tucked in, free, light yellow. Stamens 5; filaments 1.5 mm long; anthers 1 x 1 mm, light yellow. Disc fleshy, ±2 mm diam., slightly undulate on margin, dark coloured. Male flower with rudimentary styles barely 0. long, and rudimentary ovary ±1 mm long. Female flower with stylopodium and styles 1.5 mm long, conical, style tapered to tip; ovary already 4 mm long with wings 1 mm wide at flowering, green. Fruit 12 mm long, 5-winged, wings 3-4 mm wide, cordate at top of fruit, slightly emarginate or truncate at base; mericarps heteromorphic, one 2-winged, the other 3-winged, wings associated with sepaline bundles, tawny yellow at maturity; carpophore slender. Seed with base 3-4 mm above base of fruit and reaching to within 1.5 mm of top, narrowly ellipsoid, acute at apex, narrowed to ± truncate base, 5 x 2 mm, with well-developed groove on commissural face, lying loose within pericarp and easily removed from dry fruit; testa very shallowly rugose and green in the young fruit; endosperm minutely ruminate, white.
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Much-branched, woody, summer-deciduous shrub, up to 4 m tall, leafless at flowering, branches reddish brown. Leaves mostly 5-digitate, leaflets obovate, toothed. Flowers yellow. Fruit oblong to obovate in dorsal view, body of mericarps isodiametric, heteromorphic, one with 2 marginal and 1 median wing, the other with only 2 lateral wings, vittae absent, oil ducts present as hollow cavity in wings.
Much-branched, woody shrub to 4 m, leafless at flowering, with flexuose branches. Leaves mostly 5-digitate, leaflets obovate, toothed. Flowers in compound umbels, yellow. Fruit oblong to obovate, body of mericarps isodiametric, heteromorphic, one with 2 marginal and 1 median wing other with only 2 lateral wings, vittae absent, oil ducts hollow cavity in wings.
A shrub. It grows 4 m tall. The leaves have 3-5 leaflets arranged like fingers on a hand. They are 4 cm long by 2 cm wide. They have teeth around the edge. It loses its leaves at flowering time. The flowers are yellow. The fruit are oblong.
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