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Shrubs to trees, 3-6(-27) m tall. Branches grayish white to brownish gray. Leaves odd-pinnate, 12-20 cm; petiole and rachis adaxially flat, abaxially rounded; leaflets usually 3 or 5, subopposite to opposite; petiolules 3-5 mm; leaflet blades thinly elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 6-10 × 2.5-4 cm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous and lustrous, secondary veins numerous, thin, almost parallel, ± prominent on both surfaces, and connected at margin as an intramarginal vein, base cuneate, margin entire, apex obtuse to acuminate. Male flowers not seen in Chinese material. Female flowers sessile, globose, 2-3 mm in diam., axillary on apical part of branches, forming spikes, 7-12 cm; rachis slender, finely ribbed, with scattered flowers. Sepals less than 2 mm; lobes ca. 3 mm, glabrous. Berry ovoid, 1.7-2 × 1.2-1.3 cm, outside brown pubescent, with 1 or 2 seeds. Fr. Feb-Mar.
A tree. It grows 27 m high. The trunk is 40 cm across. There are buttresses 4 m tall. They extend 5 m from the tree. The bark is smooth with scaly patches. The leaves are alternate and compound. The leaves are 15-20 cm long. There are 2 or 3 leaflets on each side. The leaflets are 8.5-10 cm long by 1.8-3.5 cm wide. The uppermost one is larger. It is 18 cm long by 6.5 cm wide. The flowers are 5 mm across and white to orange. The fruit are about 2 cm across. They are green to yellow.
