Small trees, 4-7.5 m tall; branchlets grayish brown, lenticellate, buds brown, glabrous or subglabrous. Petiole 5-10 cm, petiole and rachis slender; leaf blade imparipinnately compound, 16-28 cm; leaflets 5-9, opposite; leaflet petiolules 3-5 mm; leaflet blade elliptic or oblong, gradually increasing in size toward apex, 5-11 × 2-5 cm, papery, glabrous on both surfaces, glaucous abaxially, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin entire, apex long caudate, lateral veins 15-25 pairs, subparallel. Inflorescence paniculate to 12 cm; rachis and first order branches slender, minutely pubescent. Pedicel 1.5-2 mm, minutely pubescent; flowers yellowish green. Calyx minutely pubescent, lobes ovate, ca. 1 mm, obtuse apically. Petals oblong, 2.5-3 × ca. 1 mm, revolute at anthesis. Stamens ca. 2 mm; filaments equal to anthers in length. Disk 5-lobed. Ovary ovoid, glabrous. Drupe oblate, symmetrical, 4-5 × 5-6 mm, glabrous, slightly lucid. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Aug-Oct.
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A small tree. It grows 4-7 m tall. The leaf stalks are 4-7 cm long. The leaves are compound and 16-28 cm long. There are 9-18 leaflets opposite each other along the stalk an one at the end. The leaflets are 5-11 cm long by 2-5 cm wide and they get larger towards the tip. The flowers are yellowish green. The fruit is oval and fleshy and 4-5 mm long by 5-6 mm wide.
It is a subtropical plant. It grows in hill and mountain forests between 1,600-2,600 m above sea level in Tibet.
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