Prostrate much-branched summer-lfy shrub, forming mats up to c. 2 m. diam. Branchlets 1-2 mm. diam., compressed, sparsely hairy. Lvs 1-3-(5)-foliolate; lflts sessile, c. 4 × 3 mm., obcordate, pilose. Racemes 1-3 per notch, densely 2-7-fld, on peduncles ± 4 mm. long. Fls c. 5 × 5 mm., on pedicels ± 3 mm. long. Calyx c. 2 × 2 mm.; teeth minute. Standard purple-veined; keel whitish, auricles rounded; wings white, purple-flushed towards apex, auricles rounded. Ovary glab. Pods obliquely oblong, 7-8 × 3-4 mm., dark brown, slightly compressed; beak 1-2 mm. long, slender. Seeds 2-4, yellowish green, black-mottled.
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