Shrub to 3 m high. Branchlets terete, with leaf bases not decurrent, not glandular-verrucose, velvety with stellate hairs. Leaves trifoliolate; petiole 4–10 mm long; central leaflet ovate to broadly elliptic, 6–30 mm long, 2.5–17 mm wide, entire, gently to strongly recurved at margins, acute to rounded (rarely emarginate); both surfaces velvety, not glandular-verrucose; midrib not glandular-verrucose, hirsute; secondary venation prominent on abaxial surface. Inflorescences usually not exceeding leaves, 3–30-flowered. Sepals 2.5–3 mm long, stellate-tomentose both sides. Petals valvate, 3.6–6 mm long, pale to deep pink, occasionally creamy white, stellate-pubescent on both surfaces. Filaments dilated basally, glandular-verrucose apically. Cocci not apiculate, velvety.