Shrubs, ca. 1.5 m tall; young branchlets reddish brown and yellow pubescent, buds densely yellow hairy. Petiole 3-8.5 cm, petiole and rachis yellow pubescent, rachis very narrowly winged distally; leaf blade imparipinnately compound, 8-23 cm; leaflets 7-11(-21), opposite; leaflet petiolule very short to subsessile; leaflet blade ovate-lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, or narrowly lanceolate, gradually increasing in size toward apex, 3.5-8.5 × 1.2-3.8 cm, terminal leaflet up to 10.5 cm, papery, both surfaces yellow pubescent to densely hairy along midrib, base oblique, broadly cuneate to rounded, margin undulate-crenate, ciliate, apex long acuminate or caudate-acuminate, lateral veins prominent on both surfaces. Inflorescence racemose, 3-9.5 cm, yellow pubescent; peduncle slender; floral subtending bracts lanceolate, pubescent. Pedicel ca. 2 mm, yellow pubescent; flowers white. Calyx glabrous, lobes ovate, ca. 0.7 mm, obtuse apically. Petals oblong, ca. 2 mm, obtuse apically, glabrous, with brown featherlike venation pattern. Stamens shorter than petals; filaments ca. 0.5 mm; anthers oblong, ca. 1.2 mm. Disk 5-lobed. Ovary globose, ca. 0.5 mm wide. Young drupe obliquely ovate, compressed, 4-5 × 5-6 mm, glabrous, lucid.

● Hill and mountain forests and thickets; 400-2200 m. SW Sichuan, Yunnan.