Prostrate villous herb; stems ?to 1 m long. Leaves in unequal pairs, with 8–10 pairs of leaflets; leaflets subsessile, narrowly elliptic, oblique, 6–14 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, acute, subglabrous adaxially, densely villous abaxially, ±concolorous. Flowering pedicel 15–40 mm long, upright. Sepals 9–15 mm long, glabrous adaxially, densely villous abaxially apart from glabrous hyaline margin. Petals (15–) 25–35 mm long. Intrastaminal glands distinct. Stamens 10; filaments 4–7.5 mm long. Ovary densely white-pubescent; style 4–7 (–10) mm long in flower; stigma 0.5–0.7 (–2) mm long. Fruit 6–7 mm high, to 10 mm wide, dissociating into 1–5 cocci; fruiting pedicel 20–45 mm long. Cocci woody, rounded, with short pubescence overtopped by sparser 2 mm long strigose hairs dorsally and with pair of medial spines to 3 mm long, with 2 shorter, downward pointing basal spines and shorter tubercles between.
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