Trees, to ca. 4 m tall. Branches prickly. Leaves palmately compound, with 5-7 leaflets; petiole 9-20 cm; petiolules 1.5-3 cm; leaflets oblong, 10-15 × 3.5-4.5 cm, subleathery, both surfaces glabrous, secondary veins 8-12 pairs, base rounded, margin sharply serrate, apex long acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, paniculate, unarmed, ferruginous tomentose, glabrescent; primary axis ca. 35 cm; peduncles ca. 15, 2-6 cm; pedicels to 6-8 mm in fruit. Ovary 2-carpellate. Fruit ellipsoid-globose, ca. 9 × 4 mm (immature); styles persistent, ca. 2 mm.

● Forests on limestone mountain slopes; below 800 m. Guangxi (Yangshuo).