Trees to 6 m. or large shrubs. Twigs fairly stout with conspicuous lenticels. Buds ovoid, to about 15 mm, reddish, with red-brown hairs at tip and scale margins. Leaves to 20 cm with 9-12 pairs of leaflets. Leaflets to 45 x 15 mm, but often only about 30 x 15 mm, oblong-ovoid, mucronate, toothed almost to base on long shoots but only in upper 1/2 on short shoots, somewhat leathery (coriaceous), veins impressed above, persistently red-brown hairy below, papillose beneath. Inflorescence corymbose with stout branches with conspicuous lenticels. Fruit white except for pink colouration on sepal margins, though the gaps between the non-overlapping sepals appear black and very conspicuous at the fruit apex, to 10 x 11 mm, often broader than long. Sepals fleshy. Carpels (4-)5, inferior, apices almost completely fused in depression within calyx, glabrous. Styles to 2.5 mm. distantly inserted. Seed dark brown, to 4.5 mm, up to 5 per fruit. An apomictic tetraploid (2n=68) microspecies, as understood in the wild and in the herbarium probably a group of closely related microspecies.