Unarmed, multistemmed shrub or small, spreading tree becoming 5 m high and 6 m wide. Bark dark, rough, segmented; branches grey, minutely striate, branchlets villous, greyish white. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate; petiole slender, subterete, slightly canaliculate above, sparsely hairy, (6-)12(-20) mm long; leaflets sessile, membranous, discolorous, dark green above, olive-green below, hypostomatous, glabrous when mature; lamina obovate to obtrullate, base cuneate, lateral leaflets less so, apex retuse, rounded, obtuse or subacute; margin slightly revolute, entire or irregularly bluntly toothed near apex; venation kladodromous, midrib prominent above, slightly prominent below, secondary nerves impressed, dull yellow above, grey below; terminal leaflets (18-)28(-43) x (8-)12(-24) mm, lateral leaflets (10-)18(-30) x (5-)9(-17) mm. Panicles mostly within foliage, much-branched, pubescent, flowers crowded, axillary and terminal, latter up to 45 mm long. Flowers normal, calyx lobes sparsely pubescent. Drupe circular to oblate, ellipsoid to lenticular,
