Dwarf, rhizomatous, virgate suffrutex up to 0.35 m high. Branches dark brown, villous-pubescent. Leaves erect, crowded and longest in middle of branches, trifoliolate, petiolate; petiole margined, concave, (4-)9(-14) mm long; leaflets sessile, subcoriaceous, concolorous, dark olive-green, pubescent above and below, amphistomatous; lamina linear to oblanceolate, apex acute, mucronate; margin entire, slightly revolute, ciliate; venation simple craspedodromous, midrib and secondaries prominent below, slightly prominent to obscure above, secondaries acutely angled (±25°); terminal leaflets (20-)33(-47) x (4-)6(-9) mm, lateral leaflets (16-)29(-41) x (2-)4(-7) mm. Panicles puberulous, relatively few-flowered, up to 35 mm long, mostiy axillary, within foliage, occasionally terminal. Flowers normal. Drupe circular, globoid, glabrous, shiny, ±6 mm in diameter. Flowering recorded in September and January.