Shrub, young shoots tomentose. Leaf pinnately compound, rachis becomes indurated spiny, 5-16 mm long; leaflets 4-6, sessile to subsessile, 5-12 mm long, 1.5-2.0 mm broad, narrowly oblanceolate, cuspidate, appressed hairy; stipules spinescent. Pedicel and peduncle c. 2.5-4 mm long, peduncle very short.