Shrub up to 2 m high, branching freely from the base. Bark smooth, reddish; branches erect, somewhat arched, lanate. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate; petiole lanate, semiterete, flat or slight­ly canaliculate above (3—)11(—17) mm long; leaflets sessile, coriaceous, slightly rugose, con-duplicate, discolorous, greyish green and thinly villous-lanate above, canescent to white and densely lanate-lumbricate below, hypostomatous; lamina ovate to elliptic, recurved, base obtuse to cuneate, apex acuminate, mucronulate; margin prominently dentate-serrate, teeth mucronulate; venation simple craspedodromous, midrib and secondaries prominent below, impressed above, other veins forming a prominent reticulum above; terminal leaflets (23-)42(-69) x (10-)26(-54) mm, lateral leaflets (13-)25(-50) x (8-)16 (—34) mm. Panicles lanate, axillary and terminal, exposed, males up to 180 mm long, subsessile flowers crowded on short side branches. Flowers normal. Drupe asymmetrically rhombic, lenticu­lar, glabrous, dark red, drying brown, 5,0 x 2,1 to 6,8 x 3,2 mm.