Shrub up to c. 5 m. tall, much-branched, with 3-5-foliolate lvs and occ. unifoliolate ones. Petioles slender, 2-8 cm. long; lflts subsessile, obovate-to elliptic-cuneate, coarsely and sharply serrate, acute to sub-acuminate, bronze to yellowish green above, paler below, coriac. Terminal lflt 4-8 × 1·5-2.5 cm., on short petiolule. Umbels terminal; staminate with 4-10 rays, 3-8 cm. long, the fls racemosely arranged; pistillate with rays 2-5 cm. long, umbellules irregular, 2-6-fld. Ovary 5-loculed, or locules fewer by abortion, 5-ovuled, style-branches 5, connate at base, tips free. Fr. c. 6·5 mm. long, oblong in outline.
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