Home
Stems 0.07–1.5 m tall, in burnt areas mostly unbranched and often leafless when flowering but in the absence of fire forming a branched leafy shrub; young shoots densely covered with short and rather long bristly tubercular-based yellowish hairs, older stems glabrescent, roughened by the hair bases or bark peeling to reveal a slightly fissured surface.
Racemes or panicles terminal or axillary, 2–16 cm long hairy like the young stems; peduncles 0.3–4 cm long; pedicels 1.5–6(7) mm long, pubescent; bracts entire or 2–3-fid, 1.5–5 × 0.5–1.5 mm, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, ciliolate, soon deciduous; bracteoles 2–4.5 × 0.5–1 mm, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, ciliolate, deciduous.
Standard orange-yellow, ± rectangular, or wider at the base of the lamina, 4–11.5 × 2.5–4.5 mm, somewhat constricted in the middle, emarginate at the apex, truncate or subauriculate at the base; wings and keel orange-yellow, the petals of the latter not laciniate.
Fruit of 1–2 articles joined by a narrow neck, each article ± semicircular, 5–8 × 4.5–6 mm, pubescent on margins or all over with fine tubercular-based hairs, reticulate.
Calyx flushed crimson, glabrous or pubescent, 2-lipped; lips 3–6 × 2–3.5 mm, elliptic, one entire or narrowly emarginate, the other slightly 3-fid.
Seeds dark reddish-brown, 3.5 × 2.5 × 1 mm, rounded-reniform, slightly beaked beyond the small circular eccentric hilum.
Herb or subshrub with several caespitose stems from a tough woody rhizome-like rootstock.
