Herbs; stems usually decumbent, to 2-6 dm long, hispid. Leaves 2-7 cm long, 20-50 foliolate; leaflets linear oblong, subfalcate, mostly 3-costate, 3-6 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide; stipules appendiculate below point of attachment, striate, subglabrous, (5-)10-15 mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm wide, usually somewhat hispid at the point of attachment, margins ciliate, attenuate at each end. Inflorescence often paniculate, few flowered, peduncles and pedicels hispid, bracts cordate, acuminate, 1.5-6.0 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, ciliate; bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, 1-4 mm long, 0.5-1.0 mm wide, ciliate. Flowers yellow, 3-5(-7) mm long; calyx 2-4 mm long, hispid; standard 5-7 mm long, claw 1-2 mm long, blade suborbiculate, 4-5 mm wide, entire, wings 5-7 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, keel 4-5 mm long, claws 1.0-1.5 mm long; stamens 4-5 mm long. Fruit 3-5(-7) articulate, articles 2.5-3.0(-4.0) mm in diameter, villous-hispid, with tri-chomes tuberculate based; seeds 2.0-2.5 mm long, 1.5-2.0 mm wide, blackish.
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