Shrub to 1 m high, without lignotuber. Branchlets terete, with leaf bases not decurrent, not glandular-verrucose, pubescent with mainly simple hairs, rarely glabrous. Leaves trifoliolate, not glandular-verrucose; petiole 1.5–4 mm long, hairy, rarely glabrous; central leaflet linear to oblong or lanceolate, commonly 5–25 mm long, 1.5–8.5 mm wide, entire, almost flat to recurved or revolute at margins, obtuse; both surfaces not glandular-verrucose; adaxial surface glabrous or sparsely hairy; abaxial surface pubescent or hirsute, with midrib not glandular-verrucose, hirsute, secondary venation obscure. Inflorescences shorter than leaves, 1–7-flowered. Sepals linear-subulate or narrowly lanceolate, 1.5–3.5 mm long, 0.6–1.5 mm wide, hirsute to with few hairs. Petals imbricate, 3–4.5 mm long, creamy white to pale pink, pubescent on both surfaces. Filaments slightly glandular-verrucose apically. Cocci 3–4 mm long, not apiculate, not glandular-verrucose, glabrous to hirsute.
Understorey plant in tall open forest, woodland or heathland in sandy soil, commonly over sandstone.
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