Much branched herb, stems to 0.5 m, prostrate to suberect, canescent. Leaves 8-18-foliolate, to 3 cm long; leaflets oblong-elliptic, rarely obovate, obtuse to rounded, apiculate, entire, ciliate, oblique basally, pubescent, 4-8 mm long, 1.5-4.0 mm wide; stipules lanceolate, acuminate 4-10 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, hispid, serrulate-ciliate. Inflorescence racemose, axillary, 4-15 flowered; peduncles and pedicels hispid; bracts and bracteoles ovate, acute, 1-2 mm long, 1 mm or less wide, hispid, ciliate. Flowers 6-7 mm long; calyx 2-3 mm long; standard ca. 5 mm long, the claw ca. 1 mm long, blade suborbiculate, 4-6 mm in diameter, the wings and keel about as long as the standard, 1-2 mm wide; stamens 4-5 mm long. Fruit 2-articulate, the stipe 1-2 mm long, hispid with trichomes 2-4 mmn long, mostly at the basal article, the articles 2.0-2.5 mm in diameter, glabrous to puberulent; seeds 1.5-2.0 mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm wide, black.
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