Plant: tree; to 6(-15) m high, deciduous, monoecious, or sometimes with perfect flowers, the bark rough, fissured, gray to gray-brown; buds, young leaves, and young twigs densely pubescent Leaves: mostly even-pinnately compound, 10-28 cm long; leaflets (4-) 6-19, lanceolate-obovate, falcate, 4-12 cm long, 0.5-2 cm wide; acuminate to obtuse, mainly subglabrous above, thinly pubescent on the veins, margins, and lower surface, more densely pubescent along the base of the midvein below and along the 1-2 mm long petiolules INFLORESCENCE: 15-26 cm long, racemose to paniculate, villous, many-flowered; pedicels 0.5-2 mm long; bracts 1 mm long, yellowish green to reddish brown, subulate Flowers: 2-6 mm long, 5-8 mm wide; sepals 5, obtuse to apiculate, 1-3 mm long, the margins usually ciliate, often pubescent externally; petals 5, 3-4 mm long, white, obtuse to apiculate, most with 2 usually linear scales above the claw, the scales glabrous to pubescent, the claw mostly with long pubescence internally, the margins ciliate (at least at the base); stamens 8, the filaments 1-3(-5) mm long (shorter in pistillate flowers),with long hairs on the lower 1/2-3/4, the anthers ca. 0.5 mm long; pistil glabrous or with a few hairs, the ovary ca. 1 mm long, the style ca. 1 mm long, the stigma 3-lobed Fruit: FRUITS 1-1.5 cm in diam., with 2 rudimentary aborted mericarps at the base (rarely more than one mericarp matures); pulp yellow-amber, translucent, turning reddish brown to black when dry; SEEDS globose, 8-10 mm long, smooth, reddish black Misc: Riparian, canyonsides, desert-grassland, and oak-woodland; 760-1710 m (2500-5600 ft); May-July Notes: Petals hairy and crested at base of the blade.Filaments hairy.Fruits with amber colored, translucent pulp.Tree with a broad, dense crown and dark grey bark. References: Salywon, Andrew. 1999. Sapindaceae. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. 32(1).Kearney & Peebles; Arizona Flora. McDougall; Seed plants of Northern Arizona. ASU specimans.