Plants cushionlike. Stems woody at base, branched, with persistent petioles and stipules. Leaves 3-15 cm, 15-21-foliolate; stipules linear, ca. 10 mm, adnate to petiole for ca. 1/2 its length, upper part rounded or 2-or 3-lobed, with dense long hairs; axis and petiole with dense spreading long hairs, incurved or erect after drying, persistent; leaflet blades dense, oblong, 3-8 × 1-4 mm, both surfaces with dense spreading long hairs, base rounded or slightly oblique, apex acute. Flowers solitary; pedicels 10-40 mm, with dense spreading white long hairs; bracts linear, ca. 10 mm; bracteoles slightly shorter than bracts. Calyx tubular, 10-15 mm, rarely with long hairs, gibbous at base, inflated on one side; teeth lanceolate, ca. 1/2 as long as tube. Corolla yellow or purple; standard 20-30 mm, lamina broadly ovate or suborbicular, with dense white short hairs abaxially, apex emarginate; wings 18-28 mm; keel ca. as long as wings, without auricles. Ovary sessile, with dense white long hairs. Legume narrowly elliptical, 2-3 cm × 7-8 mm, rarely with long white appressed hairs, slightly applanate, leathery. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Aug-Sep.
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A herb. The leaves are 2.5-4 cm long. They have leaflets along the stalk. There are many leaflets. They are oblong with a notch. They have silver hairs. The flowers are yellow or purple. They occur singly. The fruit is a pod. It is covered with fine hairs.
A tropical plant. In Nepal it grows at about 3000-4000 m altitude. It grows in moist pastureland. In Tibet it grows between 3,600-5,300 m above sea level.
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Moist pastureland at elevations of 3000-4000 metres in Nepal.
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