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Dioecious shrub 1-2 m tall with many relatively thin and slender stems sprouting from ground level; bark greyish brown or yellowish, peeling at the base of the stems in brownish papery pieces; young branchlets glabrous, scarred, relatively short and stout. Leaves pin­nate, 6-8-jugate, glabrous, green; petiole 5-25 mm long; leaflets linear, (10—)15(—25) X0,5—1 mm, sessile, margins entire. Inflores­cence: thyrsoid, up to 60 mm long, villous, with large bracts up to 7x 1 mm. Flowers uni­sexual, perigynous. Pedicel 4-8 mm long, pedicel, calyx and corolla villous or sparsely villous. Disc 8-lobed, adnate to hypanthium. Stamens 8. Fruit subglobose, ± 20x20x18 mm, glabrous; putamen smooth; pseudo-aril ab­sent.