Suffrutex up to 0.75 m high; branchlets, inflorescence axes and both leaf surfaces sparsely to densely setulose. Leaves up to 70 mm long, very variable, trifoliolate, twice-trifoliolate or imparipinnate with 3-5 deeply lobed or trifoliolate divisions; lobes rounded to acute. Flowers solitary or in lax 2-3-flowered cymules; pedicel or peduncle slender, up to 35 mm long; bracteoles minute, filiform, ±1 mm long. Calyx 3-5 mm long, hispidulous, lobes foliaceous, oblong-elliptic, acute, free almost to the base. Petals white, glabrous, 8-11 x 3-4 mm, broadly spathulate. Staminal tube 7-9 mm long, hairy in upper half inside, not split at apex; appendages paired, filiform, alternating with and much longer than the anthers; anthers long-apiculate, dehiscing by very short slits in lower half. Ovary densely hairy, 5-locular, with 2 collateral ovules in each cell; style 7-10 mm long, included or very slightly exserted, hairy in lower half; style-head capitate, less than 1 mm in diameter, with a terminal, 5-lobed coroniform stigma. Capsule 5 x 8 mm, up to 10-seeded.
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