Perennial, with numerous well-branched prostrate stems, up to 2·5 dm. long.. Stems slender, 4-angled, minutely puberulous, glabrescent.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets oblanceolate to obovate, up to 12 mm. long and 5 mm. wide, glabrous above, with a few small scattered bristly hairs beneath; petiole slender, up to 10 mm. long.. Stipules foliaceous, obliquely ovate-oblong, cordate, 4–6 mm. long, 3–4 mm. wide, subglabrous, persistent.. Racemes lax, up to 8 cm. long, ± 8–12-flowered; bracts cordate, ± 3 mm. long; bracteoles absent.. Calyx ± 2 mm. long, glabrous; lobes subtriangular, acuminate, longer than the tube.. Standard suborbicular, yellow, glabrous outside; wings obovate-oblong, longer than the keel; keel shortly rounded, with practically no beak, ± 2·5 mm. long.. Pod sessile, shortly subcylindrical, 7–8 mm. long, 3·5 mm. across, thinly appressed puberulous, ± 10-seeded.. Mature seeds unknown.
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