Glabrous shrub or sparsely branched small tree, bearing spirally arranged leaves towards the ends of the branches. Leaves imparipinnate, c. 70 cm long; petiole c. 17 cm, with a wide membranous sheathing base (c. 7 cm long); petiolules c. 1 cm; leaflets ovate to elliptic-oblong, up to 22 by 8 cm, membranous, apex attenuated, base rounded to broadly cuneate, often oblique, margin entire or minutely distantly dentate, slightly revolute, midrib and lateral veins prominent. Inflorescence a panicle; rachis 40 cm, with caducous bracts (reduced leaves or leaf-sheaths), bearing few secondary branches and terminating in a compound umbel; secondary branches with one or more verticils of tertiary branches; peduncles of the umbellules with one obscure bract or none; umbellule of c. 10-20 flowers, pedicels c. 5 mm. Calyx an undulate rim, indistinctly 5-dentate. Petals 5, 2½-3 mm long. Stamens 5, with very short filaments. Ovary turbinate, 1.5 mm high, 5-celled, styles at first erect, later recurved. Fruit a globose or obovoid fleshy drupe (prominently 5-ribbed when dry) c. 7 by 5 mm; persistent styles united below, strongly reflexed above.
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