Prostrate or decumbent herb, stems to ca. 1 m long, glandular-hispidulous, crisp-pubescent. Leaves mostly 8-12 foliolate, less than 3 cm long; leaflets usually obovate, obtuse to rounded at each end, ciliate, mucronulate, sparsely pubescent, ca. 7 mm long, ca. 4 mm wide; stipules ovate, acuminate, 3-4 mm long, ca. 1-mm wide, glandular-hispidulous, ciliolate. Inflorescence racemose, axillary, 3-8 flowered; peduncles and pedicels hispid; bracts and bracteoles ovate, 1.0-2.5 mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm wide, hispidulous, ciliate, Flowers yellow, 5-8 mm long; calyx 1.5-3.0 mm long, ciliate, hispidulous; standard ca. 6 mm long, the claw ca. 1 mm long, the blade suborbiculate, ca. 5 mm in diameter, pubescent on the outer face, retuse, wings and keel equal to the standard, ca. 2 mm wide; stamens ca. 6 mm long. Fruit 2-3 articulate, the stipe 3-4 mm long, hispidulous with trichomes ca. 0.5 mm long, the articles 2-3 mm in diameter, moderately crisp-pubescent; seeds ca. 2 mm long, ca. 1.5 mm wide, dark brown. Chromosomes: n = 10.
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