Prostrate trailing plant up to c. 1.5 m long. Stems branched or unbranched, pubescent with ± appressed or spreading rather stiff hairs, or densely hirsute. Leaflets (1)3; terminal leaflet 2.5–14.5 × 2–12.5 cm, broadly ovate or obovate in outline, always 3–5-lobed, the central lobe narrowly oblong to ovate; lateral leaflets smaller, asymmetrically 3-lobed, densely setose-pubescent when young but eventually glabrescent, venation strongly reticulate beneath; stipules 7–12 × 1.5–4 mm, narrowly oblong-lanceolate; petiole 0.2–4 cm long and rhachis 1.5–3.5 cm long, the two ± equal or rhachis longer than the petiole, less often slightly shorter, the two together up to 1.5–7.5 cm long. Inflorescences often densely woolly, 1.5–28 cm long but often shorter than the leaves, (1)5–10-flowered. Flowers purple, ± as in Neorautanenia mitis; calyx lobes up to 9 mm long. Pods 4–10 × 1.4–2 cm, oblong-cylindric, 1–2-seeded. Seeds black, 11–14 × 8.6–11 × 4–5.5 mm, oblong-reniform, compressed.