Dwarf shrub, 0.2-1.0 m high; virgate or branched suffrutex, branches glabrous or villous, fulvous. Leaves petiolate, trifoliolate, glabrous or hairy; leaflets sessile, coriaceous; dark green above, drying shiny brown, glabrous or hairy above, paler green, strigose and villous below, widely lanceolate to obovate, margins entire or ciliate, slightly revolute and thickened, whitish. Inflorescence much-branched panicles, pubescent or glabrous, axillary and terminal. Flowers: pedicle and calyx pubescent; styles persistent. Fruit a drupe, circular to oblate, glabrous, shiny, dull yellowish brown.
A shrub. It grows 2 m tall. The leaves are velvety underneath. The leaves are sword shaped and 14 cm long by 4 cm wide. They have a sharp point. The flowers are in groups near the ends of branches.