Shrub or small tree, dioecious, up to 6-8 m in height, that sometimes becomes arboreal with well defined trunk in forest environments. Usually it is a very ramose hemispherical shrub, with stems and old branches tortuous, with greyish-brown to blackish bark. Young branchlets greenish or often reddish. Leaves alternate, composed, paripinnate, with 2-14 opposite or subopposite leaflets 1-5 \u00d7 0.5-2.4 cm, from oblong-lanceolate to elliptical, mucronate, with entire margin, coriaceous, glabrous, deep green on the upper side and slightly lighter on the underside. Rachis clearly winged, with green wings of the same texture and colour as the leaves. Inflorescence spiciform, dense, axillary. Flowers very small, unisexual, with bracteoles similar to the sepals, reddish. Male flowers with 1 bract and 5-6 small bracteoles, 5 stamens with purple anthers. Female flowers with 1 bract and 4-5 bracteoles, ovary with a short style ending in 3 stigmas. Fruit a globose drupe up to 5 mm, with smooth and shiny surface, red at first, blackish-brown when mature, although sterile fruits remain red.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-13146","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n