Bushy annual or short-lived perennial, up to 3–15 dm. tall.. Stem much branched from the base upwards, subappressed pubescent.. Leaves shortly petiolate, 3-foliolate; leaflets oblanceolate, up to 12–24 mm. long, 3–7·5 mm. wide, with scattered hairs above, thinly appressed pubescent beneath; petiole 1–3 mm. long.. Stipules subulate, 1·5–4 mm. long.. Racemes numerous, axillary, up to 3 cm. long, with ± 2–4 flowers on the filiform rhachis; bracts filiform, up to 1–1·5 mm. long; pedicels reflexed at the apex in the mature flowers and fruits; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, minute.. Calyx much shorter than the keel, ± 3–3·5 mm. long, appressed pubescent; lobes triangular, ± as long as the tube.. Standard suborbicular, yellow, with a few hairs medially near the apex outside; wings a little shorter than the keel; keel strongly rounded about the middle, with a rather short acute scarcely incurved untwisted beak, 7–8 mm. long.. Pod shortly stipitate, subglobose, 5–7 mm. in diameter, rather thick-walled, appressed pubescent, 1–2-seeded.. Mature seeds unknown.
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