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Annual or short-lived perennial, with a leading shoot up to 0.5(-1) m tall, with long decumbent lower branches, hirsute with mostly spreading hairs, less often with shorter subappressed hairs. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic, mostly 1.5-7 x 0.5-2 cm, with those of the leading shoot usually the more narrow, glabrous to sparsely pilose above, sparsely pilose beneath; petioles shorter to longer than leaflets. Stipules filiform to linear-lanceolate, 2-11 mm long. Racemes lax, up to 2.5-14 cm long, 2-6-flowered; bracts subulate to lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, 2-10 mm long; bracteoles curved-ascending from the upper part of the pedicel, obliquely lanceolate, 2.5-9 mm long. Calyx accrescent, (9-)10-20 mm long; upper lobes attenuately triangular-lanceolate to oblong-cordate, ±3-4 times as long as the tube. Standard obovate or subcircular, longer than the calyx, white to greenish white or bright yellow, sometimes marked reddish purple, pubescent medially and apically outside; wings shorter to nearly as long as the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower half, with a well-developed slightly incurved beak, (0.9-)1-1.7 cm long, conspicuously lanate along the upper margin proximal to the beak. Legume shortly stipitate, clavate-ellipsoid, (1.5-)1.8-3.5 cm long, glabrous to thinly pilose (sometimes only on the upper side). Seeds oblique-cordiform, 2-2.5 mm long, usually obscurely rugulose, with the raised areas concentric towards the margin, brown.
Standard obovate to subcircular, medially and apically pubescent outside; wings a little shorter than keel; keel (9)10–17 mm long, angled in lower half, with a long slightly incurved beak, lanate on upper margin proximal to the beak.
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 1.5–7 × 0.5–2 cm, lanceolate to elliptic, sparsely pilose at least beneath; petioles shorter to longer than leaflets; stipules 2–11 mm long, filiform to linear-lanceolate.
Racemes long-pedunculate, laxly 2–6-flowered; bracts 2–10 mm long, subulate to lanceolate; bracteoles curved-ascending from upper part of the pedicel, 2.5–9 mm long, obliquely lanceolate.
Annual or short-lived perennial with erect leading shoot to 0.5(1) m tall and long decumbent lower branches, hirsute with mostly spreading hairs in the Flora Zambesiaca area.
Calyx accrescent, (9)10–20 mm long; upper lobes attenuately triangular-lanceolate to oblong-cordate, mostly 3–4 times as long as the tube.
Pod (1.5)1.8–3.5 cm long, clavate-ellipsoid, shortly stipitate, glabrous to thinly pilose (often only on upper side).
Seeds 2–2.5 mm long, oblique-cordiform, usually obscurely rugulose, brown.
A herb with prostrate branches, 1–2 ft. long
Flowers yellow
Thinly hairy
