Plants 25-40 cm tall. Stems 8-20 cm, ascending to erect, shortly white lanate. Leaves 10-30 cm; stipules 7-14 mm, subappressed white hairy; petiole 2-9 cm, like rachis covered with subappressed short hairs; leaflets in 6-14 pairs, mostly elliptic, 10-24 × 6-11 mm, both surfaces gray hairy with subappressed, long, white hairs. Racemes 2-3 cm, densely 9-15-flowered; peduncle 1.5-7(-11) cm, densely covered with short white hairs; bracts 4-11 × 0.5-1.5 mm, white hairy. Calyx 11-15 mm, with subappressed white hairs; teeth 2-3.5 mm. Petals pink-violet; standard oblong-obovate to rarely suborbicular, 16-21 mm, apex retuse; wings 14-18 mm; keel 11-16 mm. Legumes inflated ovoid, 17-26 mm, 10-15 mm high, grooved ventrally and dorsally, with a beak 4-10(-14) mm, incompletely 2-locular; valves transversely nerved, covered with long spreading and short appressed white hairs.