Large shrubs or small trees. Twigs fairly stout, reddish-brown, all parts of young shoots and leaves thinly red-brown hairy, more or less glabrescent except on underside of rachis. Buds ovoid-conic, reddish, to about 14 mm. with red-brown hairs confined to the tip and scale margins. Leaves about 13-22 cm with 7-11 pairs of leaflets; leaflets to 26 – 47 x 11 - 23 mm, lanceolate, toothed almost to base, non-papillose beneath. Inflorescence a corymb of large, pale pink flowers more than 10mm in diameter. Fruit becoming pure white except for pinkish flush on sepals, large, 13 - 15 x 12 - 14 mm, ovoid with protuberant fleshy calyx. Styles 3.5-4.5 mm, closely inserted. Seed about 4.5 x 2.5 mm. Carpels 4-5, inferior, apices slightly white hairy, forming flat depressed area within calyx. Seed brown, to 5 x 2.5 mm, usually only one per fruit. An apomictic tetraploid (2n=68) microspecies.