Erect or scandent shrub or small tree, 5–7.5 m. tall.. Twigs glabrous or pubescent.. Leaves petiolate, simple or 1–3-foliolate; blade lanceolate, ovate, elliptic or obovate, 1.5–10 cm. long, 0.6–4.5 cm. wide, apically obtuse, acute or rounded, emarginate, usually mucronate, glabrous or pubescent; petiole up to 3 cm. long.. Inflorescence a simple or branched corymbose raceme; pedicels 1–2 cm. long.. Sepals 5–9 mm. long, hairy or glabrous outside, with the margin generally densely white-puberulent; receptacle narrowly cylindrical, 2–5 mm. long; disk with a free rim, usually unevenlydentate, sometimes subentire.. Petals obovate, 3–5 mm. long, clawed, whitish or greenish.. Androphore about as long as the receptacle; stamens (10–)15–28, 15–20 mm. long.. Gynophore l.5–2.5(–3) cm. long; ovary narrowly cylindrical to ovoid or globose, 1–3 mm. long, glabrous or pubescent; stigma sessile and flattened-capitate.. Fruits globose or more usually ellipsoid or cylindrical, commonly rather clearly constricted between the seeds, up to 5 cm. long, 0.7–1.5 cm. in diameter.
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A shrub with many branches. It can be a scrambler or small tree. It grows up to 5 m tall. The leaves have 3 leaflets. The leaflets are oblong and 2-7 cm long by 1-3 cm wide. The end leaflet is twice the size of the others. These taper to the base. The flowers are in short, flat-topped heads. They are in the axils of leaves or at the ends of branches. The fruit are long and narrow. They are 10 cm long by 1 cm wide. They are pale creamy-brown. They are slightly constricted between the seeds.
A tropical plant. It grows in low altitude, dry type of woodland. It East Africa it grows from sea level to 2,300 m altitude. It can grow in arid places.
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