Erect annual or short-lived perennial, up to 8 dm. tall, with well-developed spreading branches.. Stem densely pubescent with fine spreading ± crisped white hairs.. Leaves 3-foliolate, rarely with the uppermost 1-foliolate; leaflets oblanceolate, oblanceolate-elliptic or obovate, up to 9–16 mm. long and 4–8 mm. wide, mostly rounded or emarginate at the apex, irregularly pubescent with very fine hairs on both surfaces; petiole up to 6–10 mm. long.. Stipules absent.. Racemes subsessile, up to 13 cm. long, with numerous fairly closely arranged flowers and usually with others clustered in the axils below; bracts linear-lanceolate, 2–5 mm. long, ± as long as the pedicel; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, inconspicuous.. Calyx 4–5 mm. long, with the tube protracted on the lower side, densely pubescent with fine mostly spreading hairs; upper lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, ± twice as long as the tube.. Standard obovate, yellow, flushed and veined reddish outside, with a few hairs medially and apically outside; wings shorter than the keel; keel abruptly rounded into a right-angle in the lower third, with a long narrow twisted beak prominently incurved at the tip, 8·5–10 mm. long.. Pod sessile, subglobose, ± 6 mm. long, 4 mm. across, densely and somewhat spreading pubescent, 2-seeded.. Seeds unknown.
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