Small tree up to 5(-15) m, monocaulous sym-podial, persistently rufous-furfuraceous, with leaves spaced along the upper part of the stem. Leaves imparipinnate, with c. 9 pairs of leaflets, up to 100 cm long or more; petiole to 30 cm, with a short sheathing base; petiolules of mid-leaflets c. 8-20 mm; leaflets normally oblong-ovate, broadest near the base, up to 24 by 11 cm, coriaceous, apex attenuated or apiculate, base truncate to subcordate; often oblique, margin entire, irregularly undulate, slightly revolute; midrib prominent, reticulations depressed above (rugose) raised and furfuraceous below. Inflorescence a panicle, flowering branches also often present in the axils of the uppermost leaves; rachis up to 60 cm with verticils of secondary branches subtended by caducous unifoliolate bracts and a terminal compound umbel; lower secondary branches up to 50 cm, with verticillate tertiary branches and terminal compound umbels; umbellules with 10-20 flowers on furfuraceous pedicels c. 8 mm long. Calyx a furfuraceous rim, with 5 small teeth. Petals 5, strap-shaped, c. 3 mm long, soon falling. Stamens 5. Ovary subcylindric, furfuraceous, c. 3 mm long, 2(-3)-celled, the fleshy disk forming a projecting conical stylopodium 2 mm long; stigmas 2, appressed at anthesis. Fruit rotund, compressed, with prominent ribs when dry 7-9 by 8-10 mm, crowned by the prominent persistent calyx and a short stout beak-like stylopodium; stigmas short, divergent.
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