Branched woody perennial to 30 cm high, glabrous to puberulous with simple and stellate hairs. Branches with decurrent leaf bases faint. Leaves sessile, 3–5-foliolate or rarely unifoliolate; leaflets linear to narrowly cuneate, 5–12 mm long, flat or convex above, thick. Flowers solitary, axillary; pedicel 1–2 mm long. Sepals narrowly to broadly ovate, 1.5–2 mm long, glabrous or puberulous. Petals elliptic, 2–3.5 mm long, somewhat conduplicate, thickened in broad glandular central area with membranous margin, glabrous to puberulous, white. Stamens: filaments narrowly oblong, glandular-verrucose towards apex, sparsely ciliate; anther apiculum very short, sparsely pilose. Ovary sparsely hairy; style terete, pilose; stigma minute to subcapitate.