Shrubs to 30 cm tall, cushion-shaped. Old branches grayish yellow to grayish brown; current-year branchlets bright grayish brown, densely pubescent. Leaves pinnate, 6-or 8-foliolate; petiole and rachis 2-3.5 cm, persistent, densely pubescent when young; leaflet blades linear, 8-12 × 0.5-1.5 mm, densely villous, apex acute. Flowers solitary, subsessile. Calyx tube tubular, 0.8-1.5 cm. Corolla yellow, 2.2-2.5 cm; standard obovate, claw ca. 1/2 as long as limb, apex slightly emarginate; wings with claw as long as or slightly longer than limb; keel with claw slightly longer than limb, auricle dentiform. Ovary densely pubescent. Legume ellipsoid, 7-8 mm, outside pubescent, inside tomentose. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jul-Aug. 2n = 16.
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