Cussonia holstii is a small to medium size tree belonging to the family Araliaceae.

[1] The species can grow up to 20 m tall, the trunk is straight and can reach 1 m in diameter.

Its bark is fissured and scaly and commonly dark greyish in color.

[1] The species has digitately compound adult leaves clustered at the end of branches, with 3-7 leaflets that are broadly ovate in outline with a crenate margin; the apex is acuminate while the base is cuneate to cordate.

Flowers are in spikes, green to yellow in color, can be up to 30 together at apex of branches.