Pinit

Sarmentose shrub forming a clump Height: up to 2m Leaves: The leaves are compound, imparipinnate and alternate, carried by a smooth and slightly prickly petiole. They can reach 17 cm in length and comprise 5 to 7 leaflets. The leaflets are shortly stalked (3 mm). The rachis is smooth and slightly prickly. The leaflets are narrowly ovate, rounded base and acuminate apex. They measure 8 cm long and 4 cm wide, both sides are glabrous, the margin is irregularly bidentate. Flowers: "The inflorescence is a cyme of 5 to 10 flowers, axillary or terminal. It is generally axillae by a simple leaf, resembling a leaflet. The flower is carried by a glabrous pedicel, 1.5 to 3 cm long. It measures 2 cm in diameter when it flourishes. The receptacle is more or less plan. The 5 sepals are triangular, acute, 8 mm long with hairless acumen of 1.5 to 2 mm long. The sepals are glabrous on the outside with only flattened sessile glands, the inner face and margin are woolly. 5 petals are obovate to subcircular, white, 8 mm long and 6.5 mm wide. The stamens are numerous, arranged in 3 rows, 2.5 to 4.5 mm long, the external being larger. The disk has a width of about 2 mm. The columella is cylindrical, about 3 mm long, filled with many carpels up to the base. Carpel are 2 mm long (0.6 mm ovary surmounted by a style of 1.4 mm), almost glabrous. Simple hairs are present between the carpel on the columella." Fruits: The fruit is a polydrupe more or less spherical or slightly flattened longitudinally, red when ripe, up to 1.5 cm in diameter.