Shrubs evergreen, prickly. Leaves usually ternate, sometimes pedately or palmately quinately compound, rarely simple, leathery; stipules mostly adnate to base of petiole, rarely free and on twig near petiole base. Flowers bisexual, forming large cymose panicles. Aggregate fruit separating from torus, or adnate to torus and separating from base of torus at maturity, hollow or not.

One species in China.