Korea Flora: Deciduous, shrub or tree up to 7m tall, branches rather thick, winter buds semiround, pubescent, bud scales 3-4, peudoterminal 5-6mm long, as long as or larger than later bud, densely yellowish brown. leaf scars U or V shape; leaves alternate, odd compound leaves, leaflets 7-13, 40 cm. long inclusive of the petiole, the rachis winged, oblong to ovate-oblong, 5-12cm × 2.5-6cm, cuneate to rounded at base, coarsely toothed, glabrate on upper side, brownish pubescent beneath, panicles terminal, broad, 15-30 cm. long, brownish pubescent; flowers dioecious, yellowish, small, calyx, petal and stamens 5, male flowers styles 3 and one carpel with nonfunctional 5 stamens; fruit subglobose, reddish yellow, densly yellowish brown puberulent, about 4 mm. across.

Flowering late July to early Sept
Fruting late Aug to late Nov.
Distribution India, Indonesia, Singapore, Tailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Vietnam, China North to South, Taiwan, Japan; all over the country
Ecological characteristics shade tolerant, growing along the road or track side, logging areas