Herb, stems to 0.5 m, hispid with tuberculate-based, glandular trichomes, to 1 mm long, sericeous with weak, appressed trichomes, to 0.25 mm long. Leaves 8-12 foliolate, ca. 2 cm long; leaflets usually obovate, obtuse to truncate, mu-cronulate, oblique, upper surface glabrous, reticulate beneath, costae villous with appressed trichomes, ciliolate, ca. 5 mm long, ca. 2.5 mm wide; petiole hispid; rachises villous. Inflorescence racemose, axillary, 2-6 flowered, longer than the subtending leaves, pedicels and peduncles with indument like the stems; bracts and bracteoles ovate, acute, ca. 1 mm long, less than 1 mm wide, ciliate. Flowers yellow, ca. 5 mm long; calyx ca. 1 mm long, ciliolate, hispidulous; standard ca. 4 mm long, the claw ca. 1 mm long, the blade elliptic-orbiculate, entire, wings and keel equal to standard, 1.5-2.0 mm wide; stamens 4-5 mm long. Fruit mo-niliform, curved or straight, (3-)4-6 articulate, the stipe 7-10 mm long, hispid, the articles ca. 2.5 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide, crisp-pubescent, often slightly gla-brate; seeds ca. 2 mm long, ca. 1 mm wide, dark brown. Chromosomes: n = 10.
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