Tender subshrub or shrub to c. 1(–2) m high; stems annual, herbaceous from a perennial tuberous rootstock, sparsely scabrous. Leaves sessile, mostly 10–35 cm long, basal pair of leaflets stipule-like; leaflets 3–11, ovate to narrow-lanceolate, mostly 3–15 cm long and 10–60 mm wide, glabrescent, apex acuminate, base asymmetric, margins serrate to more or less lobed; petiolules to 10 mm long. Inflorescences corymb-like, 8–20 cm diam., much-branched; bracts usually absent. Sepals usually 4, ovate, c. 1 mm long, glabrous; petals 2–5 mm long, shortly connate, white. Drupe ovoid to globose, c. 5 mm long, white, edible. Flowers mainly Oct.–Feb.
Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. Widespread in cool shaded forests, often in rocky places, but also found in shaded gorges on the Victorian Volcanic Plain.
