Unarmed or spiny shrub or small tree up to 7 m high. Bark rough, somewhat striate, promiÂnently lenticellate, branchlets glabrous to yellowÂish tomentose-pubescent, occasionally forming short spines. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate; petiole semiterete, usually tomentose, (6-)13(-25) mm long; leaflets generally sessile, submembranous, glutinous to furfuraceous, dark green above, pale yellowish olive below, hypostomatous; lamina elliptic, occasionally ovate, rarely lanceolate, base cuneate, apex obtuse to acute; margin entire, rarely irregularly dentate, slightly revolute and minutely ciliate; venation semicraspedodromous, midrib prominent above and below, often pubesÂcent, other veins fairly prominent above, imÂmersed below; terminal leaflets (16—)46(—78) x (7-)14(-27) mm, lateral leaflets (9-)27(-51) x (4-)12(-20) mm. Panicles yellowish tomentose, axillary and terminal, latter prominently exposed, up to 100 mm long. Flowers normal. Drupe oblate, obloid, glabrous, shiny, light brown, relatively small 2,6 x 2,3 mm, rarely up to 4,0 x 3,5 mm. Fig. 12.
