Erect shrub to 60 cm high. Branches nearly glabrous or withsparse to dense stellate indumentum between decurrent leaf bases. Leavesusually petiolate; petiole to 7 mm long; lamina usually simple (juvenile leavestrifoliolate and sessile), elliptic to lanceolate, glabrous or nearly so,attenuate at base, acute; terminal leaflets and simple leaves 12–80 mmlong, 2–12 mm wide; lateral leaflets7–13 mm long. Pedicels 4–23 mm long. Perianth white. Sepals ovate-deltate tonarrowly deltate, 2.5–6 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, acute to acuminate; abaxialsurface with a few scattered hairs. Petals 2–4.5 mm long. Stamens: filamentspilose; anther apiculum absent. Cocci glabrous.