Trees or small trees, 5-15 m tall; branchlets pubescent to minutely pubescent. Leaf blade imparipinnately compound; rachis narrowly winged or wingless distally; leaflets sessile or subsessile, 7-13; leaflet blade oblong-ovate or oblong, 5-12 × 2-4.5 cm, both sides glabrous to minutely pubescent along midrib or lower side pubescent, base rounded or subcordate, margin entire, apex acuminate or long acuminate, lateral veins ca. 20 pairs, prominent abaxially. Inflorescence 15-20 cm, densely minutely pubescent; floral subtending bracts 1-2 mm, subulate, minutely pubescent. Pedicel ca. 1 mm; flowers white. Calyx minutely pubescent, lobes narrowly triangular, ca. 1 mm, margins ciliate. Petals oblong, ca. 2 × 1 mm, minutely pubescent on both sides, margins ciliate, revolute at anthesis. Stamen filaments ca. 2 mm in male flowers, minutely pubescent proximally; anthers ovate; staminode filaments ca. 1 mm in female flowers. Disk purplish red. Ovary globose, ca. 1 mm in diam., white pubescent; male flower with sterile ovary. Drupe subglobose, ca. 4 mm in diam., purplish red at maturity, mixed pilose and glandular-pubescent.
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A small tree. It grows 12 m tall. The young shoots are hairy with a rusty covering. The leaves have an irregular number of leaflets with a leaflet at the end. There are 9-13 leaflets that are opposite. They are 4-12 cm long by 2-5 cm wide. They are narrowly oval and can have fine teeth around the edge. The groups of flowers are at the ends of branches. The fruit is fleshy and 3-4 mm across.
It is a warm temperate plant. In Pakistan it grows between 1,200-2,400 m above sea level. In China it grows on hills and mountain forests between 400-3,500 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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Thickets and woodland margins in W. China. Hill and mountain forests; at elevations from 400-3,500 metres.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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