Procumbent shrub to 1 m high, with lignotuber. Branchlets terete, with leaf bases not decurrent, not glandular-verrucose, velvety with stellate hairs. Leaves trifoliolate; petiole 0.5–5.4 mm long; central leaflet ovate to broadly elliptic, 7–13 mm long, 1.3–8.7 mm wide, entire, shortly revolute or recurved at margins, rounded apically; both surfaces glandular-verrucose, velvety; midrib glandular-verrucose, pubescent; secondary venation prominent on abaxial surface. Inflorescences generally not exceeding leaves, 3–30-flowered. Sepals 2.5–2.8 mm long, pubescent. Petals imbricate, 2–4.5 mm long, creamy white, pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially. Filaments glandular-verrucose apically. Cocci not apiculate, not glandular-verrucose, velvety.
Grows on exposed, rocky (e.g. granite, rhyolite) headlands in low dense shrubland; inland on rocky ridges in shrubland.
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