Shrub or small tree, often unbranched, 4-20(-26) m high, young parts densely brown furfuraceous, branches with spirally arranged leaves towards their ends. Leaves imparipinnate, to 80 cm long, with c. 8-11 pairs of leaflets; petiole up to 35 cm, with a short sheathing base; petiolules c. 8 mm; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, oblong or elliptic, up to 14(-17) by 4-5 cm, apex attenuated or acuminate, base broadly cuneate, oblique, margin entire, midrib prominent. Inflorescence a diffuse, repeatedly compound umbel, with reduced leaves ± persistent at the nodes; peduncle usually rather short (c. 5 cm) ending in a group of several primary rays (and sometimes with one or more lateral rays); primary rays 50-60 cm, with verticils and a terminal umbel of secondary rays which in turn are branched; umbellules with c. 5-10 flowers on fine pedicels c. 5-8 mm long (elongating in fruit to 12-15 mm). Calyx a minute rim with 4-5 small teeth, usually glabrous but occasionally furfuraceous. Petals 4-5, c. 3 mm long. Stamens 4-5, 2 mm long. Ovary ± cylindric, glabrous or occasionally furfuraceous, c. 2 mm long, 2-celled, the fleshy disk forming a blunt stylopodium. Fruit ovoid, fleshy, c. 5 mm long, crowned by the inconspicuous calyx and the projecting beak-like stylopodium (c. 2 mm long); stigmas slightly divergent or capitate.
Usually in lower and mid-montane rainforest (with Castanopsis, Nothofagus, Lithocarpus), also in regrowth, usually above 1200 m, ascending to 2400 m, but also descending to near sea-level.
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