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Inflorescences axillary, zigzag, several-flowered, 2.5–10 cm long, pubescent like the young stems; true peduncles very short; pedicels 5–8 mm long, glandular-pubescent; bracts green, leaf-like, overlapping but not hiding the flowers, persistent, 4–10 × 3–12 mm, deeply bilobed, each lobe elliptic, scarious, nervose, glabrous inside, pubescent outside, denticulate-ciliate with glandular hairs; about half the bracts are sterile; bracteoles 4–7 × 1–3 mm, elliptic-lanceolate, ciliate, persistent.
Shrub or small tree 1.5–4.5 m tall; all but youngest branchlets covered with thick brownish-red powdery bark; young stems covered with short glandular tubercular-based hairs.
Fruit of 1–2 articles joined by a narrow neck, each article semicircular, 5–7 × 4–5.5 mm, compressed, glabrous, smooth, veined.
Seeds reddish-brown, 5 × 4 × 2 mm, reniform; hilum small, circular, slightly eccentric; a trace of a rim-aril present.
Standard yellow, 8–10 × 5–6 mm, violin-shaped, rounded at the apex, wings yellow; keel petals yellow, not laciniate.
Calyx 2-lipped; lips 7–9 × 4–6 mm, ovate to oblong-elliptic, one 2-toothed, the other shortly 3-lobed.
