Shrubs to 1 m tall. Branches grayish yellow, pubescent when young. Leaves pinnate, 6-12-foliolate; petiole and rachis 1.5-3 cm, persistent, pubescent when young; leaflet blades elliptic, 5-7 × 2-3 mm, densely pubescent. Flowers solitary or to 3 in a fascicle. Pedicel ca. 4 mm, articulate basally. Calyx tube tubular-campanulate, 1-1.5 cm. Corolla yellow; standard broadly oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 1.5-2 × 0.6-0.8 cm; wings with claw ca. 1/4 as long as limb, auricle linear and slightly shorter than claw; keel auricle small, dentiform, apex obtuse. Ovary glabrous or nearly so. Legume cylindric, 2.5-4 × ca. 0.4 cm, glabrous. Fl. Jun, fr. Jul.