Shrub to 1.5 m tall, deciduous. Branches glaucous, with or without prickles. Leaves ternate,leaf blade ovate, 4-9 x 3-7 cm, base rounded to truncate, apex acute to caudate, margin doubly incised, both leaf surfaces glabrescent or puberulous along veins. Petiole 3-8 cm long, glabrous or densely covered with slender prickles. Petiolule of terminal leaflet 1-3 cm long, lateral leaflets sessile, rachis puberulous. Stipules lanceolate, 6-15 x 2-3 mm, shortly fused to petiole at base, entire, persistent.Inflorescence axillary and terminal, racemose to paniculate. Flowers up to 2 cm in diameter. Rachis and pedicels puberulous and sometimes sparsely prickly. Bractslanceolate, 5-8 x 1-2 mm, pubescent or shortly glandular.Hypanthium short, shallowly cupular.Sepals 6-10 x 3-5 mm, ovate-lanceolate, apex long acuminate to caudate, densely hairy adaxially, puberulous abaxially, usually erect at anthesis. Petals white, ovate, glabrous, base with a short claw. Stamens many, half as long as petals, filaments linear.Ovaries and stylodia glabrous.Carpels 20-25. Drupetum subglobose, ca. 1 cm in diameter, glabrous. Drupelets2-20, ca. 5 mm in diameter,fleshy, purplish-black, covered with a white bloom, loosely arranged, separating from torus at maturity, torus cylindrical.Pyrenes alveolate, pitted.