Sprawling to erect shrubs, up to 2 m. Stems glabrous, prickles up to 4 mm, slightly curved. Glands (sub)sessile, pale, on many parts of the plants. Leaves imparipinnate, with 2 or 3 opposite pairs of leaflets, often simple in the inflorescence, up to 17 cm long, petiole 0.8-5 cm long. Stipules linear, 6-9 by 0.5 mm, entire, ± glabrous. Leaflets ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 2-8 by 1-3 cm, base ± rounded, margin biserrate, apex long-tapering, papyraceous, 9-13 pairs of nerves, both sides sparsely hairy on main nerves only. Inflorescences with up to 4 monochasial or sometimes di-chasial branches under the terminal flower, altogether up to 12 flowers. Bracts leaf-like to linear. Pedicels up to 4 cm long, glabrous, with some small prickles. Hypanthium up to c. 5 mm across, glabrous outside but with rather many sessile, yellow glands. Sepals narrowly triangular, 8-16 by 3-5 mm, incl. the long acumen, indumentum outside as hypanthium and woolly on the covered margins. Petals elliptic to obovate or spathulate, 8-12 by 3.5-5 mm, falling early, obtuse, shortly hairy outside, white. Stamens 70-80, filaments up to 5 mm, anthers 0.8 mm long. Pistils c. 500, ovaries (sub)glabrous and with pale glands, on elevated, hairy torus, style up to 1.5 mm long. Collective fruits globose to slightly ovoid, up to 1.5 cm, sepals spreading. Fruits up to 1 by 0.8 mm, red, mesocarp only a thin layer when dry.
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