Found up to 800 m in the southern coastal regions of the Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini, along the escarpment forest of Mpumalanga, including Soutpansberg and in Mozambique.

[1] It has a pale grey bark and glabrous, trifoliolate leaves, which may be deeply to shallow lobed.

[2][3] "Branchlets and petioles minutely downy; leaflets sessile, oblongo-lanceolate or obovate, narrowed at base, toothed near the apex, with revolute margins, glabrous, paler below, and bearded in the axils of the veins; peduncles undivided, equalling the leaves; fl.

A smaller shrub than the preceding, with small leaves, and short, undivided racemes.

Middle leaflet 1 1/2–2 inches long, 7–10 lines wide; lateral smaller, all coriaceous, shining above, cuneate and very entire in the lower half, with a few larger or smaller teeth from the middle to the apex, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, mucronulate.