Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Trees up to 8 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Trunk with branched thorns; bark dark grey, smooth; blaze yellowish. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, glabrous, thorny. |
| Leaves : | Leaves compound, imparipinnate, to 15 cm long, alternate, spiral; rachis with oblanceolate wings, glabrous; leaflets 5-7, opposite, sessile, 2-4.5 x 1-1.5 cm, elliptic to obovate, apex emarginate or obtuse, base acute, margin crenulate or irregularly serrulate, glandular punctate, glabrous; secondary_nerves 7-10 pairs, looped near margin; tertiary_nerves admedially ramified. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary subumbellate; pedicel 1 cm long. |
| Fruit& seed : | Berry, globose; seeds 1-4. |