Spreading, eventually much-branched, subshrub, to 150 cm high. Leaves with 1 pair of leaflets; petiole apparently terete with narrow leaflike wing, 5–20 mm long; leaflets some-what succulent, usually obliquely obovate, rarely elliptic, 13–36 mm long, 7.5–26 mm wide, articulated at base, obtuse with tiny apiculum at apex. Pedicel 4–7.5 mm long in flower. Sepals 5, 5–6 mm long. Petals 5, obovate, 7–10 mm long, longer than sepals, yellow drying white. Stamens 10; filaments 3.5–3.7 mm long, winged below; wing with irregularly toothed apex. Disc 5-lobed; lobes joined, sinuate. Ovary 5-angled, 5-celled, glabrous, rarely with line of papillae between angles; stigma minute, not lobed. Capsule pendent, 5-angled, 5-celled, ±obtriangular, 7–8 mm long, 8–10 mm wide, rounded at base, truncate at apex with 1–1.5 mm long apiculum on outer edge of each of the 5 angles; pedicel 5–7.5 mm long; fruiting style 1.5–2.1 mm long. Seeds 1 per cell, 4.3–4.6 mm long, smooth, shining; raphe or aril white.
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