Spiny, much-branched shrub, usually 2 m high, occasionally up to 3 m. Bark smooth to granular, greyish white; young branches pubescent tomen-tose. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate; petioles semi-terete, sometimes slightly winged, (4-)8(-14) mm long; leaflets sessile, submembranous, dis-colorous, dull green above, incanous below, hypostomatous; lamina widely oblanceolate to obovate, margin entire, slightly revolute, occaÂsionally pauciserrate towards apex, base narrow to cuneate, apex obtuse, rounded or retuse; venation kladodromous-brochidodromous, midrib and sometimes secondaries dull yellow, prominent above, impressed below; terminal leaflets (13-)23(-36) x (4-)7(-ll) mm, lateral leaflets (8-)15(-22) x (4-)5(-9) mm. Panicles lax, up to 80 mm long, puberulous, axillary and terminal, both exposed. Flowers normal, styles separate, bent, persistent. Drupe rhombic, disÂcoid, glabrous, shiny, chestnut brown, 4,5 x 1,4 to 5,2 x 1,8 mm. Fig. 18.
