Spreading or straggling subshrub or perennial woody herb, up to 3–17 dm. tall.. Branches usually densely pubescent, usually with rather long and spreading, rarely short and appressed, hairs.. Leaves mostly crowded on very short lateral shoots, appearing fasciculate, 3-foliolate; leaflets obovate, up to 9–25 mm. long, 6–13(–17) mm. wide, pubescent on both surfaces or glabrous above; petiole slender, up to 10–18(–40) mm. long.. Stipules linear-caudate, up to 1–4 mm. long.. Racemes up to 5–24 cm. long, with usually rather numerous fairly laxly arranged flowers; bracts linear-caudate, ± 1·5–4 mm. long; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, filiform, ± 1 mm. long.. Calyx (6–)7–9 mm. long, slightly protracted on the lower side, appressed or slightly spreading pubescent; upper lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, mostly 2–3 times as long as the tube, becoming reflexed.. Standard obovate-orbicular, golden yellow, becoming suffused with red or brown, subglabrous to densely appressed puberulous outside; wings a little shorter than the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower half, with a long narrow twisted beak, ± 11–14 mm. long.. Pod shortly stipitate, oblong-clavate, 20–28 mm. long, 4·5–6 mm. across, puberulous or pubescent, ± 14–20-seeded.. Seeds oblique-cordiform, ± 2·5–4 mm. long, rugulose, brown.
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