Shrub to 4 m high. Branchlets ridged with prominent decurrent leaf bases, slightly glandular-verrucose, glabrous or with few hairs, later with conspicuous leaf scars. Leaves trifoliolate; petiole 10–20 mm long; central leaflet elliptic to obovate, 20–45 mm long, 10–17 mm wide, slightly crenulate, flat to recurved at margins, obtuse to rounded; adaxial surface not glandular-verrucose, glabrous except hairs on midrib; abaxial surface not glandular-verrucose, glabrous or with few hairs; secondary venation obscure. Inflorescences shorter than leaves, 10–20+-flowered (all or most opening at once). Sepals 0.7–1 mm long, slightly glandular-verrucose, with few hairs adaxially, pubescent or with few hairs at base abaxially. Petals imbricate, 4–4.5 mm long, creamy white, edged with pink, stellate-pubescent both sides. Filaments slightly glandular-verrucose apically. Cocci minutely apiculate, slightly glandular-verrucose, glabrous.