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Leaves 8–20(32)-foliolate; leaflets 4–25 × 2–13 mm, rounded, oblong or obovate-oblong, rounded or retuse at the apex, oblique at the base, sometimes ciliate and often with translucent marginal glands, entire or crenulate, glabrous; petiole and rhachis together 1–6 cm long, with indumentum like the stems; petiolules 0.8 mm long; stipules 3–8 × 1–6 mm, ovate to lanceolate, not appendaged, deciduous.
Inflorescences axillary or terminal, ample, racemose or paniculate; peduncle 2 cm long; rhachis 2.5–5.5 cm long; pedicels 1–2(2.7) cm long; bracts 3–5 × 1.5–4 mm, ovate, 3-toothed to 3-lobed, deciduous; bracteoles 3.5–6 × 1–3 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, glabrous to pubescent, denticulate-ciliolate.
Standard yellow or brownish, 10–15 × 6–10 mm, oblong, obovate or elliptic, emarginate, glabrous; wings yellow; keel petals yellow, longer than the standard, not laciniate but glandular-setose above.
Subshrub or shrub, (0.6)1–2.4(6) m tall or, in fireswept situations, a woody herb or subshrub 0.2–1 m tall, with erect flowering stems from a thick woody rootstock, some leafy, others not.
Fruit of 1, rarely 2 articles, 14–25 × 8–14 mm, each ± elliptic, flat and papery, glabrous, reticulate save on the wing-like margins which are 0.5–1 mm wide.
Seeds pale brown, 6 × 4.5 × 1.5 mm, obliquely elliptic-reniform, very compressed, with a minute hilum in a groove and a small beak beyond it.
Calyx glabrous to pubescent, 2-lipped; lips 5–9 × 2–4.5 mm, oblong, often ciliolate-serrulate, one 3-lobed, the other 2-lobed.
Stems glabrous to covered with tubercular-based hairs.
Yellow flowers and more or less glabrous stems
A shrub
