Thin, armed shrub from 2 to 4 m high. Bark grey, smooth; branches spreading, white, somewhat striate, often ending in spines. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate; petiole slender, semiterete, canaliculate, slightly margined, (6-)9(-12) mm long; leaflets sessile, subcoriaceous, concolorous, olive-green, glabrous, amphistomatous; lamina linear, slightly convex, apex rounded, mucronulate; margin entire; venation obscure, midrib prominent above, impressed below, secondaries seldom visible, if so then only below, at an angle of 80-90°; terminal leaflets (11-)29(-50) x (1,0-)1,7(-2,1) mm, lateral leaflets (7-)22(-36) x (1.0-)1.7(-2.0) mm. Panicles lax, glabrous, up to 80 mm long, axillary and terminal, exposed. Flowers minute, pedicellate, glabrous, calyx lobes 0.5 mm long, corolla lobes 1.3 mm long, widely ovate, obtuse to refuse, disc 5-crenulate; ovary subgloboid, styles separate, deflexed. Drupe rhombic, discoid, glabrous, shiny, light to dark brown, ±5.8 x 2.0 mm.
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Shrub, up to 4 m high. Leaves 3-foliolate, petiolate; leaflets sessile, olive-green, glabrous, amphistomatous; lamina linear; terminal leaflets (11-)29(-50) x (1.0-)1.7(-2.1) mm, apex rounded, mucronulate, margin entire. Panicles lax. Drupes rhombic, discoid, glabrous, shiny, light to dark brown, ± 5.8 x 2.0 mm. Flowers greenish yellow.
Branches stiff, spreading, unarmed, leaflets smooth, quite entire, linear, very blunt, broadest towards the apex. Shrub, 4-5 feet. Flowers greenish-yellow.