 Few to many, red-green trailing stems up to roughly a metre in length and tapering cylindrical taproots up to a metre and a half by one to two centimetres in diameter.The leaves are normally two and a half centimetres to six centimetres long and the curved, pointed leaflets are approximately two to five centimetres long by five to ten millimetres wide.The latter are narrowly elliptic to linear and arranged in 15 to 25 pairs.