Plants small, 2-5 cm tall, acaulescent or nearly so. Leaves 1-2 cm; stipules adnate to petiole, white ciliate; petiole longer than rachis, like rachis appressed white hairy; leaflets in 1 or 2 pairs, elliptic or obovate, 4-8 × 2-4 mm, both surfaces covered with ± medifixed, appressed hairs. Racemes capitate, densely 5-7-flowered; peduncle 1-2.5 cm, with appressed white hairs, toward racemes also sometimes with black hairs; bracts white villous at margins, longer than pedicels. Calyx from beginning inflated ovoid, 7-13 mm, red suffused, with white and black hairs; teeth 1-2 mm. Petals whitish; standard obovate, 16-18 × 7-8 mm, in middle slightly constricted, apex emarginate; wings 15-17 mm; keel 14-15 mm. Ovary nearly glabrous. Legumes unknown.
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