Shrubs to 1 m tall. Old branches yellow. Leaves pinnate on long branchlets and 4-or 6-foliolate, pinnate or digitate on short branchlets and 4-foliolate; petiole and rachis 0.8-2.5 cm, arched to spreading, and persistent on long branchlets, 5-12 mm and persistent or caducous on short branchlets; leaflet blades narrowly oblanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 6-12(-15) × (1.5-)2-4 mm. Flowers solitary. Pedicel 2.5-4 mm, articulate basally. Calyx tube tubular, 1-1.2 cm. Corolla yellow, 2-2.2 cm; standard obovate, claw ± as long as limb; wings with claw ± as long as limb, auricle ca. 1/2 as long as or slightly shorter than claw; keel claw ± as long as limb, auricle short. Ovary densely pubescent. Legume cylindric, 1.2-2.5(-3) cm, densely villous. Fl. May, fr. Jul.
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