Shrub to 2 m tall; branchlets with short, erect, uncinate hairs and longer, appressed or spreading hairs to 0.75 mm long. Leaves digitately 3–7-foliolate. Leaflets elliptic-oblong, narrowly oblong or obovate-oblong; upper surface often shiny, with uncinate hairs; lower surface glabrous, or with scattered, uncinate hairs or with uncinate and longer, appressed hairs on midrib; central leaflet largest, 1.5–4.4 cm long, 2–12 mm wide; lateral leaflets 0.6–3.3 cm long, 2–9 mm wide. Racemes 2–7-flowered. Sepals 5; outer two 8.6–11 mm long, 3.2–4.2 mm wide, usually with short, uncinate hairs and appressed or spreading hairs to 0.5 mm long, occasionally subglabrous. Petals usually 4. Anthers unequal; short anther 4.3–5.5 mm long; long anther 6.8–7.2 mm long. Pod 2–3 cm long, 9–15 mm wide. Seeds 4.5–6 mm long, 3.3–4 mm wide.
Recorded from coastal dunes, dry scrub, open woodland, exposed rocky outcrops and gravel beds in riparian vegetation subject to periodic flooding.
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