Erect annual 50–70 cm tall, with numerous ascending branches, the ultimate flowering branches mostly suppressed to give axillary clusters of flowers and leaves; stem rather densely subappressed pubescent.
Standard elliptic-obovate, yellow, finely lined reddish, densely silky pubescent outside; wings ± as long as the keel; keel 8–10 mm long, angular, with a straight twisted beak.
Leaves mostly 3-foliolate, uppermost reduced, usually 1-foliolate; leaflets 7–15 × 2–5 mm, oblong-oblanceolate, thinly pilose on both surfaces; petiole 2–4 mm long; stipules 0.
Calyx 4–5 mm long, densely pilose; upper lobes narrowly acuminate-triangular, 2–3 times as long as the tube.
Pod sessile, 6 × 4 mm, shortly oblong-ellipsoid, pubescent, 6–10-seeded.
Mature seeds not seen.