Slender, virgate, sparingly branched shrublet up to 1 m high. Brunches glabrous, longitudinally ribbed, occasionally peeling. Leaves trifoliolate, subsessile to petiolate; petiole 3-ribbed below, margined, shallowly canaliculate above, (1-)3(-7) mm long; leaflets sessile, rigid, glabrous, concolorous, dull grey-green, drying yellow-green, amphistomatous; lamina linear-oblanceolate to elliptic and obovate, base narrowly cuneate to obtuse, apex acute to acuminate, cuspidate; margin entire, slightly thickened, whitish; venation simple craspedodromous, midrib and secondaries equally prominent above and below, secondaries ±9 per cm, often forked; terminal leaflets (18-)39(-62) x (3-)6 & 15(-20) mm, lateral leaflets (13-)35(-60) x (2-)5 & 13(-17) mm. Panicles glabrous, axillary and terminal, latter up to 70 mm long, flowers crowded on short branches, males exposed, females within foliage. Flowers normal, styles persistent. Drupe oblate, asymmetric, ellipsoid, glabrous, shiny, chestnut-brown, 5.8 x 3.8-6.8 x 4.0 mm.
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Leaflets extremely rigid sharp pointed; terminal leaflets more than 7 times longer than broad, penni-parallel-veined; veins prominent; petioles shorter than 6 mm. Flowers yellowish green.
A shrub. It grows 60 cm tall. The leaves are compound. The leaflets are widest in the middle and taper to both ends. The tip has a sharp point. Leaflets are 5 cm long by 1.5 cm wide.
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