Small tree or shrub; bark smooth, grey; wood reddish; branchlets dark greyish-brown, pubescent. Leaves 2–10 cm. long, often borne on short shoots; rhachis pubescent, often narrowly winged; petiole 3–8 mm. long, pubescent; leaflets 3–14-jugate; petiolules up to 0·5 mm. long, or leaflets subsessile; leaflet-lamina up to 15 × 9 mm., obliquely oblong, chartaceous, sparsely pubescent mainly on the midrib, apex usually emarginate, margin entire, base ± truncate and attached to the petiolule almost at the corner; lateral nerves numerous for the size of the leaflet and rather closely spaced. Flowers often appearing before the leaves, cream-coloured; pedicels 1–3 mm. long in male flowers and 5–6 mm. long in female flowers (fide Hauman), articulated at the base, pubescent. Sepals 5, 2 × 1 mm., oblong, pubescent. Disk 0·8 mm. in diam. Stamens 5; filaments 4 mm. long, glabrous; anthers 1·8–2 mm. long, apiculate; staminodes in male flowers very short. Ovary 3-gonous; style 1 mm. long. Fruit orange to red, c. 15 × 15 mm., subglobose, glabrescent when mature, apiculate at the apex; stipe up to 7 mm. long. Seed 10 × 6 mm., ellipsoid.