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Racemes or panicles axillary or axillary and terminal, 4–12 cm long, puberulous or glabrous with many well-spaced flowers; peduncles 1–4 cm long; pedicels 3–8 mm long, puberulous or glabrous; bracts 2.5 × 1–1.5 mm, elliptic or oblong, 2–3-toothed or-partite, very deciduous; bracteoles 1.5–3 × 0.5–1 mm, lanceolate, deciduous.
Subshrub with a woody rhizome-like rootstock and several branched or unbranched, sometimes almost leafless erect stems 0.3–2 m tall, pubescent with short tubercular-based glandular hairs when young or glabrescent, finally glabrous.
Standard yellow to orange, sometimes tinged red outside, 5.5–7 × 2–4.5 mm, violin-shaped or ± rectangular, emarginate, wings and keel petals yellow or green, the latter not laciniate.
Fruit of 1–2 articles joined by a very narrow neck, each article semicircular, 7–9 × 5–7 mm (but see note), glabrous or rarely pubescent, reticulate, or finely rugulose when adult.
Calyx brownish-purple, glabrous, 2-lipped; lips 3.5–6 × 2–4 mm, elliptic-oblong, ciliolate or not, one 2-lobed, the other 3-lobed.
Seeds not seen ripe, pale brown, 3.2 × 2.2 mm, semicircular-reniform; hilum minute, eccentric.
