Tree to 20 m high, deciduous, with dark grayish-brown winter buds. Leaves 20–30 cm long; leaflets 5–9, lanceolate to ovate or oblong, 1.5–8 cm long, 1–4.5 cm wide, apex cuspidate, base cuneate, margins crenate to serrate, glabrous. Panicles terminal, many-flowered, appearing with leaves; sepals and corolla present. Samara narrowly oblanceolate, 15–25 mm long, winged in upper half. Flowers spring.
VVP, GipP, CVU, HSF, HNF. Also naturalised in SA. Native to southern Europe and western Asia. Collected once on Herring Island near Melbourne.
