Straggling or scrambling shrub, up to perhaps 3 m. tall.. Young twigs densely covered with sometimes spreading, fulvous, rather bristly hairs.. Leaves petiolate, 3-foliolate; blade obovate to oblong-obovate, 2–8.5 cm. long, 1.5–5.5 cm. wide, apically rounded or somewhat truncate, basally broadly cuneate, pubescent; petiole 2–3 cm. long.. Inflorescence 2–4-flowered terminal and lateral racemes or the flowers solitary in the leaf-axils; pedicels 1–2.5 cm. long, becoming stout.. Sepals 12–20(–23) mm. long, pubescent on both surfaces; receptacle 7–10 mm. long.. Petals about 5 mm. long, cream.. Stamens ± 44; filaments 3–4 cm. long, markedly rigidly exserted.. Ovary ovoid, ± 2 mm. long, usually densely pubescent; stigma broad.. Fruits subspheroid, up to 4 cm. in diameter, densely verruculose, green, glabrescent, with the small stigma persistent.
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