Inflorescences axillary, several-to 10-flowered, sometimes branched; peduncle 5–15 mm long; rhachis 2.5–8 cm long; pedicels 2–7 mm long, pubescent; bracts 2–3-fid, 2–3 mm long, persistent; bracteoles 2–3 × 0.5–1 mm, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, slightly ciliolate.
Erect subshrub with tufts of usually many stems, 10–40 cm tall, from a very woody rootstock, usually flowering after burns.
Fruit of 1 article, or 2 joined by a very narrow neck, rounded or ± semicircular, 4–7 × 3.5–5 mm, glabrous, reticulate.
Seeds dark chestnut-brown, 3.5 × 3 × 1 mm, elliptic-reniform; hilum small, circular, slightly eccentric.
Standard yellow, 7–8 × 5 mm, violin-shaped; wings and keel petals yellow, the latter not laciniate.
Calyx glabrous, 2-lipped; lips 4–4.5 × 3–3.5 mm, ovate, one 2-toothed, the other 3-toothed.
Stems at first with short tubercular-based hairs, later ± glabrous.