Monocaulous sympodial shrub, 1-1.5 m, with leaves spaced along the upper part of the stem; young parts red-furfuraceous. Leaves imparipinnate, with 3-4 pairs of leaflets (leaflets occasionally in threes), c. 35 cm long; petiole to 9 cm, with a very short sheathing base; petiolules 8-15 mm; leaflets oblong, ovate or elliptic, up to 16 by 6 cm, chartaceous, apex attenuate or apiculate, base rounded or cuneate, margin entire, irregularly undulate, slightly revolute, midrib prominent. Inflorescence a compound umbel, red-furfuraceous (stem growth renewed by a bud between the inflorescence and the uppermost leaf); peduncle 3-6 cm, bearing scars of caducous reduced leaves, occasionally with a lateral umbellule, and ending in an umbel of c. 1 primary rays; primary rays 1-2.5 cm, sometimes with a minute bract near the middle; umbellule with 10-20 flowers on pedicels 2-3 mm long, densely furfuraceous. Calyx a rim with 5 broad teeth. Petals 5, broadly oblong, 3-4 mm long. Stamens 5, anthers 1 mm long, filaments 2 mm. Ovary turbinate, 2 mm high, 2-celled, the fleshy disk forming a projecting conical stylopodium; stigmas 2 appressed at anthesis. Fruit rotund to ovoid compressed 5-6 by 5 mm crowned by the prominent persistent calyx and the beak-like stylopodium (2-2½ mm long); stigmas not prominent.
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