Decumbent annual or short-lived perennial, with radiating curved and ascending shoots up to 5 dm. long, tomentose with spreading hairs obscuring the surface of the young branches.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic to obovate, up to 35 mm. long and 20 mm. wide, glabrous above, appressed pubescent beneath; petiole up to 15 mm. long.. Stipules linear-caudate or subulate, 2–8 mm. long, often recurved.. Racemes shortly pedunculate, dense, up to 10–17 cm. long, many-flowered; bracts subulate, up to 2–3 mm. long; bracteoles inserted at the top of the pedicel, very small.. Calyx becoming truncate at the base and deflexed against the pedicel, 3·5–4·5 mm. long, pubescent with mostly appressed but often rather irregularly arranged hairs; lobes triangular-acuminate, subequal to or a little longer than the tube.. Standard obovate, yellow, usually veined brown, glabrous outside; wings longer than the keel; keel rounded about the middle, with a short slightly incurved blunt untwisted beak, 6–7 mm. long.. Pod subsessile, ellipsoid-cylindrical, ± 10 mm. long, 4–4·5 mm. across, appressed puberulous, ± 8–12-seeded.. Mature seeds unknown.
Home