Spreading shrub or small tree up to 8·5 m. tall, with rough greyish bark; young branchlets reddish-brown, shining, ± angular, glabrous or sometimes pilose, the old ones subterete, greyish or brownish, lenticellate. Petiole 1·5–5 cm. long, slender, glabrous or sometimes pilose, slightly canaliculate and margined on the upper surface. Leaflets sessile, dull green above, lighter below (sometimes, when dried, brownish or blackish above and greyish or brownish-grey below), linear-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, membranous or ± rigid to subcoriaceous, glabrous or sometimes pilose mainly on the midrib; median leaflet 4–10·5(13·5) × (0·6)1–2(4·3) cm., abruptly cuneate at the base, the lateral ones smaller (about 1/3–2/3) and not so cuneate at the base, all acute or subacute at the apex, with the margin slightly revolute, entire or shallowly crenate-dentate; midrib slender, raised on both surfaces; lateral nerves (2–5 mm. apart) and reticulation scarcely visible. Panicles axillary and terminal, nearly as long as the leaves or the terminal ones slightly longer, lax with the axis and branches very sparsely furfuraceous, glabrous or pilose; pedicels 1–2 mm. long.Male flowers: calyx-segments white or pale yellow, c. 0·5 mm. long, ovate, obtuse; petals c. 1 mm. long, oblong; filaments c. 0·5 mm. long; anthers c. 0·2 mm. long; disk patelliform, 5-lobulate. Female flowers: ovary obliquely ovoid; styles deflexed; staminodes present. Drupe yellow-brown to cinnamon-brown, shining, 4–5 mm. in diam., depressed-globose or subquadrate, slightly asymmetrical, smooth, glabrous.
