Shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets ridged with prominent, raised decurrent leaf bases, not or slightly glandular-verrucose, glabrous or with simple and/or stellate hairs; older branches with conspicuous leaf scars. Leaves trifoliolate; petiole 8–23 mm long; central leaflet elliptic to obovate, 15–29 mm long, 5–14 mm wide, entire, flat, obtuse or scarcely acute, not glandular-verrucose, glabrous both sides. Inflorescences shorter than leaves, 3–10-flowered (1–3 open at one time); peduncle not glandular-verrucose. Sepals c. 0.7 mm long, glabrous adaxially, sparsely stellate-pubescent at base abaxially. Petals valvate, 3.5–3.7 mm long, white to pale pink, with glands abaxially, stellate-pubescent both sides. Filaments sparsely to densely stellate-pubescent, particularly towards apex, not or slightly glandular towards tip. Cocci smooth, glabrous.
Found in clefts and crevices in Borya patches and in low closed forest and heath, all usually in exposed, windswept situations on granite above 900 m. Webb & Tracey 12158 was collected at around 200 m at the edge of a rock outcrop in complex mesophyll vine forest on riverine levee.
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