Multistemmed, deciduous shrub up to 3 m high and 5 m wide, usually smaller. Branches divaricate, greyish brown, glabrous, lenticellate; branchlets somewhat squarrose, often reddish, spur-like. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate; petiole slender, semiterete, slightly canaliculate above, (3-)5(-9) mm long; leaflets sessile, coriaceous, pinnatifid, discolorous, dark green, rugose and shortly pubescent above, canescent to white and tomentose-lumbricate below, hypostomatous; lamina ovate to obovate, base attenuate, apex refuse to obtuse; margin irregularly cleft, parted or divided, revolute, lobes crenate to bicrenate, mucronulate; venation simple craspedodromous, midrib and secondaries prominent below, impressed above; terminal leaflets (12-)15(-20) x (8-)9(-10) mm, lateral leaflets (4-)10(-13) x (3-)5(-7) mm. Panicles pubescent, terminal on short spurs, up to 50 mm long, exposed, flowers glomerulate. Flowers sessile, calyx and corolla tomentose. Drupe oblate, ellipsoid, creamy canescent, villous-tomentose, 4.7 x 2.5-6.0 x 4.5 mm.
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