Plants 25-35 cm tall. Stems several, densely covered with medifixed, appressed, white hairs 0.3-0.6 mm, with some black hairs mixed in, especially toward nodes. Leaves 3-7 cm; stipules 3-4 mm, free from petiole, high connate behind stem, loosely white and black hairy, partly glabrescent with age; petiole 0.4-1.5 cm, with rachis hairy like stem; leaflets in 5-8 pairs, 4-7 × 1.5-3 mm, abaxially sparsely to loosely covered with appressed white hairs 0.4-0.8 mm, adaxially glabrous. Racemes ca. 3 cm, densely 8-10-flowered; peduncle 5-18 cm, sparsely to very sparsely hairy like stem; bracts 3-4 mm, with strongly asymmetrically bifurcate to basifixed white and black hairs. Calyx at anthesis narrowly ellipsoid, ca. 11 mm, loosely covered with subappressed, symmetrically to strongly asymmetrically bifurcate, flexuous, black hairs 0.4-1.2 mm and with fewer, strongly asymmetrically bifurcate to basifixed, white hairs 1-1.5 mm; teeth ca. 1 mm. Petals probably white with violet-tipped keel or pale violet; standard narrowly obovate, 19-20 × ca. 7 mm, apex retuse; wings 16-17 mm; keel 14-15 mm. Ovary with a stipe 1.5-2 mm, white and black hairy. Legumes unknown.
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