Much-branched, unarmed or occasionally spinescent shrub up to 3 m high. Bark granular, dull grey-brown; branchlets tomentose. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate; petiole semiterete, shallowly canaliculate, tomentose, (3-)13(-33) mm long; leaflets sessile, papyraceous to subcoriaceous, concolorous, olive-green above, slightly paler below, thinly sericeous above, densely pubescent-villous below, hypostomatous; lamina obovate to widely obovate, occasionally elliptic, base attenuate, apex obtuse to rounded, mucronulate; margin crenate to bicrenate towards apex, slightly revolute; venation simple craspedodromous, midrib and secondaries impressed above, prominent below; terminal leaflets (10-)30(-84) x (6-)20(-45) mm, lateral leaflets (7-)22(-55) x (4-)14(-33) mm. Panicles lax, axillary and terminal, later up to 150 mm long, exposed, axillary within foliage. Flowers normal. Drupe rhombic, discoid, initially pruinose, latter shiny, dark brown, 4.8 x 1.7-6.7 x 2.4 mm.
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A low shrub. It can grow to 6 m tall. The crown is dense with many branches. The bark is dark. It loses its leaves during the year. The leaves have a scent. The young twigs and leaves are hairy. Sometimes the leaf branches are spiny. The leaves have 3 leaflets that are softly hairy. The leaflets are egg-shaped. The point is blunt and they narrow to the base. The edges of the leaves are normally coarsely scolloped. The leaflets are 1.3-10 cm long by 0.8-5 cm wide. The middle leaflet is the largest. The leaflets are dark green above and paler or yellowish below. They turn red in autumn. The flowers are star like. The flowers are greenish-white. They occur in loosely branched sprays. They are in the axils of leaves and near the ends of branches. The fruit are small, round and pea-sized. The fruit are 6 mm across. They can be white or purplish-brown when ripe. They are edible.
Shrub, up to 3 m high. Leaflets sessile, obovate to widely obovate, olive-green, puberulous to glabrous, margin crenate; terminal leaflet (10-)30(-84) x (6-)20 (-45) mm. Fruit rhombic, glaucous. Flowers greenish white.
It is a tropical plant. It grows in areas that are sometimes waterlogged. It is usually in areas with a rainfall between 300-800 mm. It grows between 300-1,850 m above sea level. It grows in open woodland and on termite mounds. It can grow in arid places. It grows in various types of woodland and on rocky hillsides. It grows on the banks of rivers. It can stand some frost.
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Wooded grassland and bushland, especially on rocky slopes, hardly in miombo; white sand soils; termite mounds; river banks; gravelly stations, Brachystegia woodland; open savannah with Albizia, Acacia; at elevations from 690-2,000 metres.
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