Shrub or tree to 10 m. Twigs very glossy, orange-brown. Bud conic, to 10 mm, white hairy, especially at tip and scale margins. Leaves 13-15 cm with 5-7 pairs of leaflets. Leaflets to 30-40(-60) x 8-10 mm, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, toothed in upper 1/2 to 2/3, medium green, glossy above, non-papillose beneath. Inflorescence a lax panicle of nodding flowers. Flowers 15-20 mm wide, drooping, white or occasionally pinkish. Fruit cherry red, to about 9 x 8.5 mm.. Sepals mostly fleshy; styles distantly inserted. Carpels 5, semi-inferior but free from one another almost to base, apices forming conical protuberance within calyx and white hairy. Seed chestnut brown about 5 x 2 mm. A sexual diploid (2n=34) species.