Creeping or scrambling small shrubs. Stems sparsely soft-hairy, glabrate, prickles rather few, curved, up to 2(-4) mm long. Leaves 3-foliolate, upper ones sometimes simple, petiole 1-5 cm long. Stipules elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 5-12 by 1-5 mm, entire or toothed, acuminate to caudate, ± glabrous. Leaflets obovate to elliptic, terminal ones 1.5-3.5 by 1-2.5 cm, lateral ones smaller, base narrowed, margin serrate, apex rounded with or without a short acumen, stiff coriaceous, 4-7 pairs of nerves, both surfaces very sparsely hairy on main nerves. Inflorescences poor, often only the terminal flower, sometimes 1 or 2 flowers below it. Bracts stipule-like. Pedicels up to 2 cm long, hairy and with some curved prickles. Hypanthium 5-6 mm across, sparsely hairy outside and with some straight, short prickles. Sepals ovate to triangular, 8-12 by 5-7 mm, growing after anthesis, entire, acuminate to 4 mm caudate, long-hairy outside and woolly on the covered parts. Petals obovate to orbicular, 8-9 by 7-8.5 mm, rounded, white. Stamens 40-50, filaments up to 4 mm, anthers c. 1 mm long. Pistils 30-40, ovaries long hairy on the dorsal side and at the top, on an elevated, hairy torus, style up to 3.5 mm long, with hairs at base. Collective fruits ovoid, up to 2 cm across. Fruits up to 4 by 3 mm, purple (?), mesocarp fleshy, a thin layer when dry.
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