Plants 8-20 cm tall, acaulescent, caespitose. Leaves 4-20 cm; stipules 5-12 mm, adnate to petiole for ca. 2 mm, densely ciliate; petiole 1-7 cm, like rachis loosely to rather densely covered with spreading hairs 1-2 mm; leaflets 4-8 verticillate in 10-18 approximate whorls, narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, 3-8(-15) × 1.5-2.5(-3) mm, mostly folded, abaxially rather densely covered with appressed to ascending hairs, adaxially glabrous, apex rounded. Racemes 3-5-flowered; peduncle 0.2-0.6(-2.5) cm, spreading hairy; bracts 4-8 mm, hairy. Calyx 10-15 mm, very sparsely to loosely, more rarely rather densely, spreading hairy, at base often completely glabrous; teeth 2-3 mm. Petals yellow, fading reddish; standard oblong-pandurate, 20-26 × 7-10 mm, in lower 1/3 distinctly constricted, apex deeply incised; wings 19-24 mm; keel 16-22 mm. Legumes with a stipe 2-3 mm, 8-15 mm, 4-5 mm high and 3-4 mm wide, with a beak ca. 2 mm, incompletely 2-locular; valves rather densely covered with ascending hairs.
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