Deciduous subshrub up to 300 mm high when in flower; stems erect or decumbent, fleshy when young but later woody, initially armed with persistent bases of petioles, later developing flaking bark. Leaves pinnate, green; blade oblong-lanceolate in outline, 10-30 x 8-10 mm, pinnae bipinnatisect, ultimate segments subulate, 2-4 mm long, puberulous and minutely glandular-haired, eglandular vestiture of short, sub-appressed hairs, interspersed with sparse, longer straggling hairs on petiole and rachis; petiole ± as long as lamina, base expanded, becoming cartilaginous and semi-persistent; stipules decurrent on petiole for half to three quarters their length, 4-12 mm long, glabrous with ciliolate margins, becoming cartilaginous and semi-persistent. Inflorescence with one axillary branch, bearing smaller foliar leaves at node; peduncle villous and glandular-haired, eglandular vestiture of moderately dense, short, spreading hairs up to 0.3 mm long mixed with markedly verrucose-based, straggling hairs ±1-2 mm long; pseudo-umbels 2 or 3-flowered; pedicels ±1 mm long; hypanthium 10-12 mm long, indumentum similar to peduncle but straggling hairs up to 1 mm long. Sepals oblong, 8-9 x 2-3 mm, green tinged purple, ab-axial indumentum as on peduncle. Petals 5, pure white or faintly flushed pink, all unmarked, posterior two erect or reflexed, oblanceolate to obovate, 15-20 x 6-9 mm, obtuse or emarginate, anterior three narrowly oblanceolate, 13-18 x 3-4 mm, obtuse. Fertile stamens 7, filaments white, solitary posterior 11 mm long, two upper laterals 10 mm long, four anterior 12-13 mm long; anthers ±2 mm long, reddish with yellow pollen. Style wine-coloured.
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