Low, spreading, straggly but intricately branched, woody but brittle undershrub, usually 30–50 cm high, to 1 m wide, occasionally sprawling in other shrubs. Leaves sessile and simple or petiolate and with 2 leaflets, but petiole varying in length and width; leaflets succulent, continuous with petiole, obtuse, truncate, emarginate or, rarely, 3-lobed at apex. Pedicel 3–14.5 mm long in flower, erect. Sepals 4, 4–7.5 mm long. Petals 4, obovate, clawed, 5.5–11 mm long, longer than sepals, yellow drying white. Stamens 8; filaments 3.5–5.2 mm long, unequal, not winged, without appendages. Disc 4-lobed; lobes free, semicircular, succulent, papillose on margin. Ovary 4-angled, 4-celled, glabrous; style 2.2–5.5 mm long; stigma minutely capitate, not lobed. Fruit pendent, 4-winged, 4-celled, subcircular to transversely broadly elliptic, 8–20 mm long, rounded but deeply emarginate at apex, breaking into 4 single winged fruitlets; wing with very closely spaced reticulate venation, appearing almost parallel when dry; pedicel 9.5–15 mm long; fruiting style 2.6–5 mm long. Seed 0 or 1 per cell, linear to narrowly elliptic, 3.2–5.6 mm long, pale brown.
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