Shrub or tree up to 6 m. tall, branches stout with lvs crowded towards tips of branchlets, 3-5-foliolate, lvs of juveniles larger than those of adults. Petioles 5-15 cm. long, stout. Lflts subsessile, obovate-cuneate, sinuate-crenate to bluntly serrate in upper half, subacute to obtuse, thick and coriac.; terminal lflt with short petiolule, c. 5-10 × 2-4 cm. Umbels terminal, compound; staminate with 4-8 primary rays c. 4-5 cm. long, fls racemosely arranged along secondary rays; pistillate with shorter rays, fls in irregular umbellules. Ovary 5-loculed, 5-ovuled, style-branches 5, connate, tips spreading. Fr. oblong in outline, c. 7 × 5 mm.