Subshrub of unknown habit (prostrate to ascending herb in variety), with woody stems 20–70 cm. long, pubescent with tubercular-based hairs.. Leaves 14–24-foliolate; leaflets oblong, 3–5 mm. long, 0.5–1.5 mm. wide, rounded or retuse and mucronulate at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, glabrous, minutely punctulate, scarcely ciliate to ciliate-serrulate; venation obvious, the main nerve central, blackish-purple beneath; petiole and rhachis together 0.8–2.5 cm. long; petiolules minute; stipules linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, not spurred, 3–5 mm. long, 0.8–1.5 mm. wide, acuminate, denticulate-ciliate, soon falling or ± persistent.. Inflorescences axillary, 1–2(–few)-flowered; rhachis 0.7–3 cm. long; peduncle 5–7 mm. long, pubescent; pedicels 2–4 mm. long; bracts ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 1.5–3 mm. long, 0.5–1.5 mm. wide, denticulate-ciliate, ± persistent or soon falling; bracteoles ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 2 mm. long, 0.6–0.7 mm. wide, denticulate-ciliate.. Calyx 2-lipped, the lips oblong, 2–3 mm. long, 1.2–2 mm. wide, the one 2-lobed, the other 3-lobed with a narrow middle lobe, denticulate-ciliate.. Standard probably yellow, obovate or ± round, 4.5–5.5 mm. long, 3.2–5 mm. wide, cuneate, retuse; keel-petals not laciniate.. Pods with stipe 0.5–1.5 cm. long, 1–2-jointed, the articles semicircular, sublunate or rounded-oblong, 3–5 mm. long, 1.8–3 mm. wide, slightly inflated, compressed but not flat, joined by a very narrow neck, glabrous to ± pubescent, muricate.. Seeds brown, lunate, ± 1.3 mm. long; hilum minute, eccentric.
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