Plants 10-20 cm tall, subacaulescent. Stems of current year 1-3 cm, densely covered with short white hairs. Leaves 3-5 cm; stipules connate behind stem; petiole long; leaflets in 3 or 4 pairs, linear, 7-9 × 0.5-1 mm, appressed white hairy. Racemes subumbellate-capitate, 5-or 6-flowered; peduncle longer than leaves, appressed white hairy; bracts minute. Flowers subsessile. Calyx tubular, appressed white and black hairy; teeth unequal, upper 2 narrowly triangular, ca. 1/3 of tube length, lower 3 subulate, longer. Petals purple-violet; standard ca. 10 mm, limb slightly emarginate; wings shorter than standard, limbs narrowly oblong, slightly dilated toward emarginate tip; keel slightly shorter than wings, limbs oblong-curved. Ovary narrowly oblong, hairy. Legumes unknown.
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