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Leaves (6)8–16-foliolate; leaflets 5–17 × 2.5–8 mm, obovate to oblong or elliptic, emarginate to acute at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, glabrous on both surfaces or pubescent beneath with tubercular-based hairs, denticulate-ciliate or ciliate or in some areas glabrous on the margins, several-nerved from the base, the main nerve basally eccentric; petiole and rhachis together (1)2–4 cm long; petiolules 0.5 mm long; stipules 4.5–9 × 2–4 mm, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, acute, rounded or slightly auriculate or appendaged at the base, veined.
Inflorescences axillary, sometimes together with several leaves on short shoots or even fasciculate; rhachis 3–5 cm long; pedicels 2–3 mm long; bracts purple or green, crowded, overlapping but not hiding the flowers, large, 8–17 × 10–35 mm, deeply to shallowly bilobed, each lobe obovate, rhombic or rounded, scarious, nervose, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, mostly finely denticulate-ciliate or in some areas glabrous on the margins; bracteoles 6–9 × 1–3 mm, elliptic-lanceolate.
Standard yellow or orange, 10–14 × 5–7.5 mm, very slightly narrowed in the middle, obovate-oblong or oblong, rounded at the apex; wings yellow or green; keel petals white, green or yellow, not laciniate.
Seeds dark reddish-brown, 3.5 × 2.8 × 1 mm, elliptic-reniform; hilum small, elliptic, slightly eccentric, with a trace of a rim-aril present.
Branchlets covered with thick brownish-red powdery bark; young stems densely covered with sticky tubercular-based hairs.
Calyx 2-lipped, yellow, lips thin, 10–11 × 4.5 mm, oblong-elliptic, one 2-toothed the other shortly 3-lobed.
Fruit of 1–2 articles, each article semicircular, 6–7 × 5–7 mm, smooth or slightly rugulose.
Lax erect aromatic shrub up to 0.6–4.5 m tall.
