Plants 18-25 cm tall, acaulescent or nearly so, covered with mostly spreading hairs up to 2 mm. Leaves 15-25 cm; stipules 8-12 mm, adnate to petiole for 3-5 mm, ciliate or sparsely hairy; petiole 3-7 cm, like rachis loosely to rather densely hairy; leaflets in 15-17 pairs, ovate to obovate, 8-15 × 4-8 mm, abaxially loosely to densely covered with short appressed to ascending hairs, adaxially glabrous, apex rounded and sometimes with a minute cusp. Racemes 6-13 cm, very loosely 6-10-flowered; peduncle 6-14 cm, densely hairy; bracts 7-13 mm, hairy. Bracteoles present, linear, 2-3 mm. Calyx 12-16 mm, sparsely to loosely hairy; teeth 2-5 mm. Petals yellow; standard obovate, 26-27 × 8-10 mm, in lower part slightly constricted; wings 23-24 mm; keel 21-22 mm. Legumes with a stipe 7-9 mm, 18-20 mm, 7-8 mm high and 10-11 mm wide, widely flattened ventrally and dorsally, with a beak 1-2 mm, 2-locular; valves loosely hairy or glabrous when completely ripe.
Home