Shrub to 3 m high. Branchlets terete, with leaf bases not decurrent, glandular-verrucose, velvety with stellate hairs. Leaves trifoliolate; petiole 1–8 mm long, pubescent; central leaflet lanceolate to elliptic, 7.5–29 mm long, 1.5–6.5 mm wide, entire to crenate, slightly recurved at margins, acute to obtuse; adaxial surface slightly glandular-verrucose, hirsute with minute simple and stellate hairs; abaxial surface not glandular-verrucose, velvety, the midrib not glandular-verrucose, pubescent, secondary venation obscure. Inflorescences longer than leaves, rarely shorter, usually 15–30-flowered. Sepals 0.7–1 mm long, slightly glandular-verrucose, glabrous. Petals imbricate, 1.2–2 mm long, creamy white, pubescent adaxially. Filaments slightly dilated basally, not glandular-verrucose. Immature cocci not apiculate, with few hairs.