Spiny, much-branched shrub, usually 2 m high, occasionally up to 3 m. Bark smooth to granular, greyish white; young branches pubescent tomentose. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate; petioles semiterete, sometimes slightly winged, (4-)8(-14) mm long; leaflets sessile, submembranous, discolorous, dull green above, incanous below, hypostomatous; lamina widely oblanceolate to obovate, margin entire, slightly revolute, occasionally pauciserrate towards apex, base narrow to cuneate, apex obtuse, rounded or refuse; venation kladodromous-brochidodromous, midrib and sometimes secondaries dull yellow, prominent above, impressed below; terminal leaflets (13-)23(-36) x (4-)7(-11) mm, lateral leaflets (8-)15(-22) x (4-)5(-9) mm. Panicles lax, up to 80 mm long, puberulous, axillary and terminal, both exposed. Flowers normal, styles separate, bent, persistent. Drupe rhombic, discoid, glabrous, shiny, chestnut brown, 4.5 x 1.4-5.2 x 1.8 mm.
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Shrublet, up to 3 m high, much-branched, woody, often spinous. Leaflets sessile, oblanceolate to obovate; terminal leaflet (13-)23(-36) x (4-)7(-11) mm. Drupes rhombic, discoid (more than 2.6 times broader than deep). Flowers green.
A spiny shrub. It has many branches. The leaves have leaflets that do not have stalks. They are dull green above and have white hairs underneath. The fruit are brown and flattened.
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