Shrub to 3 m high. Branchlets glandular-verrucose, especially along prominent ridged decurrent leaf bases, glabrous or with few hairs. Leaves trifoliolate; petiole (8–) 12–18 mm long; central leaflet elliptic to obovate, 22–41 mm long, 7–13 mm wide, entire or crenulate towards tip, flat, acute, not glandular-verrucose, glabrous; midrib raised abaxially; secondary veins obscure. Inflorescences shorter than leaves, 3–7 (–12)-flowered; peduncle glandular-verrucose. Sepals c. 0.7 mm long, not or slightly glandular-verrucose, glabrous adaxially, sparsely stellate-pubescent abaxially at base. Petals valvate, 3.5–4 mm long, white to cream or pale pink, stellate-pubescent on both surfaces. Filaments glabrous or with few small hairs, particularly towards apex, slightly glandular distally. Cocci smooth, glabrous.
Occurs in windswept heath and stunted closed forest, in clefts and crevices, among granite boulders and on pavements.
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