Shrub up to 3 m tall, stem herbaceous, shoot not winged. Leaves unipinnately compound, lowest pair of leaflets rarely again pinnately compound, leaflets elliptic, 6-20 x 2.5-12 cm, scabrous with few white hairs above, hairy on the nerves below, cordate-rounded, acuminate, serrate; lateral petiolulate 1-2 cm long; stipules large, c. 1.4 cm long, adherent to the petiole, pubescent to glabrous, caducous. Peduncles 0 to 5 cm long. Flowers white or greenish white, c. 4 mm across; bracts filiform, longer in old flowers, smaller upwards, ± persistent, hairy. Calyx cupular, 5-lobed, lobes 2-5 mm long, linear, subulate, obtuse and gland-tipped. Petals 5, ovate 1.5-2 mm long. Staminal tube divided about half way down or a little less. Berry black, smooth, depressed-globose, 4-6 mm in diameter, entire or obscurely 6-lobed, glabrous. Fruit edible.