Shrub, 1.5(-5) m, with few branches, bearing leaves spirally arranged near their ends, glabrous except a slight rufous tomentum on young parts. Leaves imparipinnate, with 3-4 pairs of leaflets, up to c. 60 cm; petiole to 17 cm, with a very short sheathing base; petiolules 0.5-1.5 cm; leaflets oblong, ovate or elliptic, 6-13 by 3½-6 cm, papyraceous, apex attenuate or apiculate, base cuneate, often oblique, margin entire, slightly revolute, midrib and few lateral veins evident. Inflorescence a panicle, often appearing lateral by rapid growth of a bud at its base; branches rather fine and wiry, rachis often angled at the nodes, up to c. 60 cm; secondary branches borne singly at wide intervals and in a few rayed terminal umbels, c. 20 cm long, bearing umbellules on side branches and terminally; umbellules with c. 10-15 flowers on pedicels ½-1 cm long. Calyx a minute rim. Petals 5, broadly oblong, 2 mm long. Stamens 5, anthers oblong, 1 mm long, filaments 1 mm. Ovary turbinate, 2 mm high, 2-celled, the fleshy disk rising to the central fused stylar column. Fruit ovoid, crowned by the prominent stylopodium with a capitate stigma, c. 1 by 4 mm when dry.
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