Shrubs to 1.5 m tall. Old branches grayish brown to brown. Leaves pinnate, (4 or)6(or 8)-foliolate; petiole and rachis 2-4 cm, persistent; leaflet blades lanceolate to oblanceolate, 8-15 × 3-6 mm, apex acute. Flowers solitary. Pedicel 1-6 mm, articulate basally. Calyx tube tubular-campanulate, 0.9-1.3 cm. Corolla yellow, (1.7-)2-2.3 cm; standard oblong-obovate, claw short, apex rounded; wings with claw as long as limb, auricle ca. 2 mm; keel with claw slightly longer than limb. Ovary glabrous. Legume lanceolate to narrowly ovoid, 2.5-3.5 cm, glabrous. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Aug-Sep.