Trees to ca. 9 m tall, sometimes scandent shrubs to 15 m tall, hermaphroditic. Petiole 10-20 cm; petiolules 2-5 cm; leaflets (3-)5-7, ovate to elliptic or obovate, 8-20 × 3-9 cm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, secondary veins ca. 8 pairs, tertiary veins prominent, raised on both surfaces, base cuneate, margin entire, apex shortly acuminate. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of heads, sparsely stellate tomentose, glabrescent; primary axis 5-35 cm; secondary axes to (15-)20 cm; flowers sessile or subsessile, 5-8 per head. Calyx ca. 1 mm, subentire. Ovary 5-carpellate; stigmas 5, sessile, inconspicuous. Fruit ovoid to subglobose or obovoid, 3-5 mm in diam., 5-ribbed when dry; disk conic-pentagonal. Fl. May, Jun, Sep, fr. Jun, Jul, Sep-Dec.
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A small tree. It grows about 9 m tall. It can have climbing stems 15 m long. The leaf stalks are 10-20 cm long. The leaves are compound and have leaflets spread out like fingers on a hand. The leaflets are oval and taper to both ends. There are 5-7 leaflets. They are 8-20 cm long by 3-9 cm wide. The veins are raised on both surfaces. The flowers are in a group of heads at the ends of the branches. There are 5-8 flowers in each head. The fruit is oval and 3-5 mm across. They have 5 ribs.
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