Short-lived perennial, with slender ascending or usually prostrate or decumbent stems, often forming mats.. Stems sparsely or rarely densely covered with spreading hairs.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic or obovate-elliptic, up to 14–30 mm. long and 10–25 mm. wide, with few scattered hairs above, appressed pubescent beneath; petiole up to 13–23 mm. long.. Stipules subulate, 1–2 mm. long.. Racemes long and slenderly pedunculate, up to 7–16 cm. long, with few widely spaced flowers on the very slender rhachis; bracts subulate, up to 1–1·5 mm. long; bracteoles inserted at the base of the calyx, similar.. Calyx 3·5–4·5 mm. long, thinly pubescent; lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, a little longer than the tube.. Standard broadly elliptic, yellow or flushed pink, veined and sometimes suffused brown or purplish, glabrous outside; wings shorter than the keel; keel strongly rounded about the middle, with a narrow slightly incurved untwisted beak, 6–7 mm. long.. Pod subsessile, oblong-ellipsoid, up to 13–16 mm. long, 4·5–7 mm. across, pubescent, ± 14–20-seeded.. Seeds oblique-cordiform, ±2·5 mm. long, smooth, brown.
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