Shrub or tree, up to 8 m tall; bark smooth to rough, grey to purplish black, not peeling; branchlets ± at right angles to main branches, slender, pubescent. Leaves narrowly oblanceolate to obovate or lanceolate in outline, often turning red when old, 2–11 cm long, including 2–16 mm long petiole, subglabrous or, more often, pubescent with ± appressed to spreading hairs up to 0.6 mm long; rhachis sometimes slightly winged; leaflets (3–)5–45(–51), entire, subsessile, ovate to oblong-elliptic or obovate, rounded to cuneate at the base, obtuse or broadly pointed at the apex, up to 13(–18) x 8(–10) mm. Flowers in few-flowered pubescent racemes or panicles up to 6(–10) cm long; bracts oblong to triangular, up to 6 x 2.5 mm; pedicels 1–8 mm long. Calyx c. 1.5 mm long, glabrous or pubescent; petals ovate, c. 2–3 mm long, glabrous or medially pubescent outside; filaments 0.8–1 mm long, ovate, abruptly narrowed near the middle into a filiform tip, papillose. Fruit 3(–4)-celled, pear-shaped to subglobose, sometimes ± winged, glabrous, 8–22(–25) x 7–11(–14) mm; stones ± cross-like, with apical and basal horns as well as lateral horns, without or with a narrow ± caducous wing.
