Erect shrub 1.5-3(-3.5) m tall, much branched, with weak, ascending, sericeous branches, not thorny. Leaflets linear-filiform, pinoid, 6-20 mm long, slender, non-pungent, straight or almost so, pointed, weak, the young pubescent, glabrescent. Leaf bases shield-like, protracted into a 2-4 mm long, woody spur or spine. Flowers solitary on lateral short-shoots, distributed several together along the branches. Bract and bracteoles subulate, 6-8 and 4-6 mm long, respectively. Pedicel 3-5 mm long, sericeous. Calyx sericeous, with linear-subulate, weak lobes 4-6 mm long. Petals either light yellow or white to rose-coloured. Standard blade 11.5-15.5 x 12-15 mm, sericeous or tomentose on the back; front basally with two disc-shaped, glabrous callosities. Wing blades obovate-elliptic, 7-9 x 3.3-5.4 mm, glabrous. Keel blades 9-11.5 mm long, 3.5-4.5 mm broad, subacute. Pistil: ovary and style base sericeous; ovules 3-7; style curved; stigma elongate, forwardly directed. Pod narrowly ovate, in some forms rostrate, 11-15 x 4-6.5 mm, often dark, pubescent.
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Shrub, 1.5-3.5 m. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets needle-like, straight, weak, hairy becoming glabrous, leaf bases forming woody spurs or spines. Flowers solitary but several clustered together on short shoots, pale yellow or white to rose, standard with 2 disc-shaped callosities at base, wings and keel glabrous, calyx silky, lobes awl-shaped.
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