Melolobium exudans leaves

The leaves of Melolobium exudans are three-foliolate with petioles and short stipules but without petiolules.

The leaflets are oblong, lanceolate or oblanceolate with bluntly pointed or rounded tips. The dark, hairless, green blades are sticky and shiny from sparse surface glands that may appear whitish, sometimes crusty (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; JSTOR; iNaturalist).