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Subshrub or shrub mostly erect with several stems 0.15-3 m tall, from a woody rootstock, often coming up after burns and then frequently flowering when leafless or when the leaves are only slightly developed; secondary roots long and tuberous. Stems glabrous to densely viscid-pubescent or scabrid. Leaves 14-80-foliolate; leaflets (3)6-24 × (1.5)2-8 mm, oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse to emarginate and mucronulate at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, glabrous; main nerve mostly central; petiole and rhachis together 3-25 cm long, often pubescent; petiolules 0.5-1 mm long; stipules 7-24 x 2-4 mm, ovate-to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat auriculate but not appendaged. Inflorescences terminal, mostly well-branched and many-flowered with a rhachis 10-35 cm long, also some shorter less branched inflorescences in the axils of the upper leaves; peduncle 2.5-5 cm long, glabrous to densely pubescent; pedicels 4-11 mm long; bracts 3-10 x 2-6 mm, elliptic to ovate, entire or denticulate, soon falling; bracteoles 3.5 x 2 mm, ovate, obtuse or acute at the apex, glabrous but often ciliolate, soon falling. Calyx glabrous, 2-lipped; lips 4.5-8 x 3-7 mm, ovate, one emarginate, the other 3-lobed at the apex. Standard yellow with purple veins, 6-13 x 2-5 mm, ovate-elliptic, emarginate; wings pale yellow with purple veins, 8-17 mm long; exceeding the keel; keel petals pale yellow with purple veins, not laciniate; filament sheath mostly shorter than the fruit stipe, which is mostly 4-5(10) mm long. Fruit of 1-2 articles joined by a neck 2-4 mm wide; articles 12-27 x 9-13 mm, obovate, elliptic or semicircular, flat and papery, glabrous save for the slightly pubescent margins, reticulate. Seeds reddish-brown, 5 x 4 × 2 mm, elliptic-reniform, beaked beyond the small round eccentric hilum.
Inflorescences terminal, mostly well-branched and many-flowered with a rhachis 10–35 cm long, also some shorter less branched inflorescences in the axils of the upper leaves; peduncle 2.5–5 cm long, glabrous to densely pubescent; pedicels 4–11 mm long; bracts 3–10 × 2–6 mm, elliptic to ovate, entire or denticulate, soon falling; bracteoles 3.5 × 2 mm, ovate, obtuse or acute at the apex, glabrous but often ciliolate, soon falling.
Leaves 14–80-foliolate; leaflets (3)6–24 × (1.5)2–8 mm, oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse to emarginate and mucronulate at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, glabrous; main nerve mostly central; petiole and rhachis together 3–25 cm long, often pubescent; petiolules 0.5–1 mm long; stipules 7–24 × 2–4 mm, ovate-to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat auriculate but not appendaged.
Standard yellow with purple veins, 6–13 × 2–5 mm, ovate-elliptic, emarginate; wings pale yellow with purple veins, 8–17 mm long; exceeding the keel; keel petals pale yellow with purple veins, not laciniate; filament sheath mostly shorter than the fruit stipe, which is mostly 4–5(10) mm long.
Subshrub or shrub mostly erect with several stems 0.15–3 m tall, from a woody rootstock, often coming up after burns and then frequently flowering when leafless or when the leaves are only slightly developed; secondary roots long and tuberous.
Shrub, up to 3 m high. Stems, peduncles and rhachis glabrous to densely viscid pubescent or scabrid. Leaves 14-80-foliolate. Pods of 1 or 2 articles joined by a neck 2-4 mm wide, articles 12-27 x 9-13 mm, flat and papery.
Fruit of 1–2 articles joined by a neck 2–4 mm wide; articles 12–27 × 9–13 mm, obovate, elliptic or semicircular, flat and papery, glabrous save for the slightly pubescent margins, reticulate.
Calyx glabrous, 2-lipped; lips 4.5–8 × 3–7 mm, ovate, one emarginate, the other 3-lobed at the apex.
Seeds reddish-brown, 5 × 4 × 2 mm, elliptic-reniform, beaked beyond the small round eccentric hilum.
Stems glabrous to densely viscid-pubescent or scabrid.
