Evergreen shrubs, 1.5-2 m tall; bark yellowish brown. Stems terete, weakly ridged, gray puberulent at first, glabrescent. Leaves 1-or 3-foliolate; stipules small, triangular, adnate to petiole, silvery tomentose; petiole 4-15 mm; leaflets rhombic-elliptic or broadly elliptic to broadly ovate, 1.5-4 × 0.6-2.4 cm, densely silvery tomentose on both surfaces, lateral veins inconspicuous, base broadly cuneate to rounded, apex obtuse, often mucronate. Flowers 4-15, in short dense terminal racemes; bracts ovate, 5-6 mm, deciduous; pedicels ca. 1 cm, subglabrous, with 2 bracteoles at midpoint. Calyx 5-7 mm. Corolla yellow, ca. 2 cm, petals long clawed. Ovary stipitate, glabrous. Legume linear-oblong, 3-8 × 1-2 cm, flat, apex acute to obtuse; stipe 8-10 mm. Seeds 2-5, orbicular-reniform, ca. 6 mm in diam. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. May-Aug.
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