Erect shrub or small tree up to 5 m in height. Branches fragile, densely covered with brown-greyish hairs, not glanduliferous. Leaves deciduous or semideciduous, bright green, red and orange in autumn; large, imparipinnate, with hairy rachis and with 5-10 pairs of opposite or nearly opposite leaflets. Leaflets densely pubescent on the underside, from ovate to lanceolate with crenate-serrate margin, sessile except for the terminal leaflet, which is similar to the lateral leaflets but is petiolate. Flowers densely grouped in panicles of 15-25 cm, terminal or more rarely axillary, upright and pyramidal. Flowers small 3-4 mm, unisexual or hermaphrodite, yellow-greenish, female flowers with 3 short styles, male flowers with 5 exserted stamens with yellow anthers. Calyx with 5 minute sepals, ovate, villous. Petals twice as long as the sepals, white-greenish, ovate. Fruit a lenticular reniform drupe, 4-6 mm, reddish-brown and hirsute, with glandular hairs, and lanate in appearance when mature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-13128","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n