Shrub, 0.5-2.0 m high; fastigiate, bark brown; branchlets grey-brown, glabrous to pubescent. Leaves petiolate, trifoliolate; leaflets sessile, lateral leaflets smaller than terminal, subcoriaceous, dark green above, slightly paler below, glabrous or thinly pubescent, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic or rarely obtrullate, margins entire, revolute. Inflorescence glabrous to tomentose panicles, axillary and terminal; terminal slightly exposed, up to 30 mm long. Flowers small, cream-coloured to yellowish, rarely bisexual. Flowering time Nov.-Apr. Fruit a drupe, oblate, obloid, glabrous, shiny, brown.