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Perennial shrub, 0.3-1.5 m high; stems and branches densely pilose with short, spreading, dark-coloured hairs. Leaves densely fascicled, 3-foliolate; leaflets similar, elliptic, 2-4 mm long, green, often with 2 pale stripes on either side of midrib beneath; juvenile leaves toothed. Inflorescence: bracteoles with ciliate margins. Flowers solitary in axils of undifferentiated leaves; sepals 4, glabrous. Female flowers: sepals ovate, 0.9-1.4 x 0.4-0.7 mm, recurved; receptacle ± prominently ridged, ovoid-oblong; carpels 1 or 2; stigma 0.9-1.3 mm long, red, feathery and hidden by leaves. Flowering time Nov.-May. Fruit an achene, glabrous, ribbed.
Dwarf shrub, up to 0.5 m high. Stems densely divaricately branched, forming short branchlets (brachyblasts). Leaves sessile; trifoliolate; blade elliptic, leaflets narrowly elliptic, 1.9-4.3 x 0.61.3 mm, apex acute, margins entire, flat; glabrous. Flowers: solitary in axils of undifferentiated leaves; sepals 4; brownish; Nov.-May.
