Shrub or tree (2–)4.5–10 m. tall, with heavy spreading crown; bark black or grey to reddish, smooth or rough; slash yellow with pink tinge; branchlets ± glabrous to puberulous or pubescent, lenticellate. Leaves trifoliolate, typically ± glabrous but hairy in variety, very discolorous, when glabrous dark and shiny above; leaflets narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 2–14.5 cm. long, 1–7 cm. wide, rounded to acuminate at the apex, attenuate to cuneate at the base, subentire to crenate or coarsely and irregularly dentate, subcoriaceous, sometimes with hairy domatia beneath; petiole (1–)2–7.5 cm. long. Inflorescences 4.5–15 cm. long, unbranched or usually with 1–6 branches, usually pale fulvous pubescent; cymules subsessile; pedicels (0.5–)1.5–2 mm. long, often glabrous. Flowers white, greenish white or yellowish green, scented; outer sepals broadly elliptic, ± 1 mm. long and wide, inner oblate, 1 mm. long, 1–1.5 mm. wide, ± glabrous; petal spathulate, 1 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide. Filaments ± 2 mm. long, hairy at base. Style 1 mm. long, hairy; stigma 0.5 mm. long. Fruit ellipsoid, 5–7 mm. long, 4–4.5 mm. wide, very sparsely hairy. Seed ellipsoid, 5.5–6 mm. long, 4.5 mm. wide.
