Straggling, climbing or prostrate shrub with densely hairy twigs.. Leaves petiolate, simple or 3(–5)-foliolate; blade elliptic to obovate-elliptic, sometimes almost rhombic, 4.5–7 cm. long, 2.2–2.5(–4.3) cm. wide, apically obtuse, mucronate, sometimes shiny above, pubescent or subglabrous; petiole up to 2.5 cm. long.. Inflorescence an extra-axillary short corymbose or subumbelliform raceme, arising 2–4 mm. above the leaf-axils; pedicels 10–12 mm. long, hairy.. Sepals 8–9 mm. long, pubescent on both surfaces or practically glabrous within; receptacle narrowly cylindrical, 5–6 mm. long; disk with a free rim up to 0.5 mm. long, unevenly dentate.. Petals 0.. Stamens 36–43; filaments ± 8 mm. long.. Gynophore ± 2 cm. long at anthesis; ovary ellipsoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, puberulent.. Fruits broadly ellipsoid, approaching spheroid but commonly narrowed towards the apex, 12–20 mm. long, 8–12 mm. in diameter, with 4 marked ridges from the base, puberulent.
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