A prostrate, mat-like, densely branched shrublet with main branches up to ±1 m long, rather rigid and strong (rarely almost thorny but not ending in a point). Branchlets minutely puberulous. Leaflets oblong-ovoid(-conical), 1-2(-3) mm long, 0.5-0.7 mm thick, subterete or slightly canaliculate above, green, glabrous, often slightly curved, ending in a short mucro. Flowers solitary on the tips of short, densely leafy branchlets; internode just below flower ±1 mm long or more. Floriferous branches often close (the mats sometimes being virtually covered with yellow flowers). Bract and bracteoles 0.6-1.2 x 0.2-1 mm long, oblong-lanceolate, mucronulate, subglabrous. Pedicel 1.5-2.3 mm long, densely appressed-puberulous. Calyx tube sparsely appressed-puberulous (to subglabrous); lobes triangular, 1.5-2.1 mm long, green, glabrous, ending in a ±0.4 mm long spinelet. Petals bright yellow (or standard back slightly violet). Standard blade 6.2-7.1 x 5.1-6.5 mm, short-sericeous on apical half of back. Wing blades oblanceolate-oblong, 4.3-4.7 x 1.7-2.3 mm, apically rounded, glabrous, with ±3 rows of (few) folds at the base. Keel boomerang-shaped, 4.3-5.3 x 2.2-2.6 mm, curved at right angles, apically rounded, glabrous, without distinct basal puckering. Pistil sericeous on upper parts of the ovary and style base. Pod triangular-lanceolate, ±7.5 x 3.3 mm, sericeous.
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Prostrate, mat-forming shrublet with branches to 1 m. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets oblong-ovoid, subterete, often slightly curved, shortly mucronate. Flowers solitary at ends of branchlets, bright yellow or standard slightly violet on back, wings glabrous, keel boomerang-shaped, glabrous, calyx thinly adpressed-hairy, lobes triangular, spine-tipped.
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