Aromatic erect or scrambling shrub or small tree 1.5–4.5(–5.4) m. tall; bark pale and ridged; young stems ± square, densely yellow or pale brown pubescent, ± glabrous when older.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets ovate or elliptic, 1.8–10.5 cm. long, 1.3–5.5 cm. wide (the median longest), acute to long-acuminate at the apex, very rarely rounded, cuneate to rounded at the base, the laterals more rounded or subtruncate, entire, crenate or ± toothed, sometimes very slightly bullate, scabrid and ± rugose above, sparsely to densely pubescent beneath particularly on nerves and with dense glands or ± glabrous (particularly in K7); venation raised beneath; petioles 1.3–5(–7) cm. long; petiolules 1–5(–18) mm. long, the lateral leaflets with them short or subsessile.. Inflorescences narrow, 2–12.5 cm. long, pubescent, the lateral cymes mostly short so that panicle appears almost subspicate; young inflorescence with bracts slightly comose at apex, soon falling; main bracts to each cyme purplish, 3 mm. long, 1–1.5 mm. wide.. Calyx shortly tubular, 1.5–3 mm. long, shortly toothed to distinctly lobed, pubescent and glandular.. Corolla white, dull yellow or very pale pink; tube 2–2.5 mm. long, glabrous to pubescent-tomentose outside; lobes ovate to ± round, 1.5 mm. long, 1.2–1.5 mm. wide, glandular and tomentose outside at tips, the upper lip distinctly bilobed or not.. Fruit buff-brown, ovoid to globose, 6 mm. long, glossy, glabrous and not glandular, the wall very thin and easily splitting; endocarp very hard; fruiting calyx ± 7 mm. wide, irregularly lobed.
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A shrub or climber. It grows 5 m tall. The small branches have brown hairs. The leaves are compound with 3 leaflets. The central leaflet is largest. The leaflets are oval and 8 cm long. They have hairs underneath. The flowers are white. The fruit are small and brown and shiny.
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