Shrub to 3.5 m high. Branchlets ridged, with decurrent leaf bases, not glandular-verrucose, glabrous except when very young. Leaves trifoliolate; petiole 11–36 mm long; central leaflet lanceolate, commonly 37–55 mm long, 4–15 mm wide, entire, flat or margins slightly recurved, acute, both surfaces glabrous, not glandular-verrucose; midrib with few hairs or very rarely glabrous; secondary venation obscure on abaxial surface. Inflorescences shorter than leaves, to 30-flowered. Sepals 1.2–1.9 mm long, pubescent. Petals imbricate, 3.5–5.2 mm long, creamy white, ±gland-dotted abaxially, pubescent adaxially. Filaments glandular-verrucose apically. Cocci minutely apiculate, glabrous.