Erect much-branched subshrub or woody herb, up to 1–1·8 m. tall.. Branches densely pilose with fine brownish spreading hairs.. Leaves alternate with others often crowded on very abbreviated axillary shoots and appearing fasciculate, 3-foliolate; leaflets oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, small, up to 12 mm. long and 4 mm, wide, rounded to truncate at the apex, sparsely pilose above, rather densely appressed pilose beneath.. Stipules absent.. Racemes subsessile, dense, up to 5–8 cm. long, many-flowered, sometimes with other flowers clustered in the axils below; bracts linear, up to 3 mm. long, ± as long as the pedicel; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, inconspicuous.. Calyx 4–5 mm. long, with the tube protracted on the lower side, densely pilose; upper lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, ± twice as long as the tube.. Standard elliptic, shorter than the mature keel, yellow, veined purplish-red, puberulous apically outside; wings much shorter than the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower third, with a long narrow twisted beak, 9–11 mm. long.. Pod subsessile, ellipsoid-globose to very shortly cylindrical, up to 9 mm. long, 5 mm. across, densely spreading pubescent, 8–10(–13)-seeded.. Seeds orbicular-reniform, ±1–5 mm. across, smooth, brown.
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