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Umbels terminal and lateral; bracts few, 3–7 mm. long, linear, with long fine tips, inconspicuous and often missing, probably subcaducous; bracteoles 0–2, similar to the bracts. Partial umbels with 4–7 flowers on fine pedicels up to 6 mm. long, but usually shorter. Lateral umbels sometimes with male flowers only.
Fruit 14–15 × 9–11 mm., pyriform to obovate, strongly dorsally compressed; stylopodium depressed; styles c. 1 mm. long; lateral wings c. 2 mm. wide, well developed, tending to envelop the stylopodium; dorsal ribs filiform.
Leaves elliptic, (sometimes with large lobes on one side to subternate); lamina up to 20×10 cm., cuneate, on petioles c. 5 cm. long; margins finely dentate, the teeth with mucronate tips.
Stems up to 60 cm. long, nearly simple, more or less terete, with fine striations, leafless at the time of flowering.
Calyx teeth relatively conspicuous in flowers and young fruit; petals yellowish-green to greenish-brown.
Seeds occupying c. the upper 2/3 of the fruit, with the basal part sterile and narrower.
Developing fruit, rays and peduncles sometimes tinged with pale purple.
Perennial, glabrous suffrutex with a large underground woody caudex.
Carpophore unknown; vittae 0.
