Plants cushionlike. Stems woody at base, with branches. Leaves 3-8 cm, 11-or 13-foliolate; stipules lanceolate, 6-7 mm, adnate to petiole for ca. 1/2 its length, persistent; axis and petiole slender, with dense long hairs; leaflet blades dense, obovate-oblong, 5-7 × 3-5 mm, both surfaces with dense spreading long hairs, base rounded, apex emarginate or cuneate. Flowers solitary; pedicels 10-60 mm, with dense spreading white short hairs; bracts subulate; bracteoles almost same as bracts. Calyx tubular, 12-13 mm, with dense white short hairs, gibbous at base, inflated on one side; teeth lanceolate, slightly shorter than tube, with red-brown glands at apex. Corolla purple or orange-yellow with purple; standard 13-18 mm, lamina elliptic. Ovary sessile, glabrous. Legume linear, 3.5-4 cm × 4-5 mm, with dense appressed hairs. Fl. Jul, fr. Aug.
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