Medium sized, deciduous tree; branches slender, glabrous or finely pubescent; leaves equal, symmetrically set, distichous, appear like leaflets of a pinnate leaf, simple, subsessile, linear-oblong, obtuse at apex, obliquely subcordate at base, glabrous or puberulous beneath; stipules scarious, lacerate; flowers minute, numerous, densely fascicled in axillary clusters towards lower portion of branchlets, greenish yellow to orange; perianth lobes 5-6, sepaloid, obovate-oblong, obtuse, valvate; males flowers shortly pedicellate; stamens-3, staminal column short; disk obsolete; female flowers subsessile; ovary globose, styles connate at base, arms recurved, very large, dilated and twice branched, stigma very large, twice 2-fid; disk as lacerate cup; drupes depressed-globose, obscurely 6-lobed; seeds trigonous, dark brown.