Spreading much-branched shrub, up to 2–3 m. tall.. Branches tomentose with brown mostly spreading hairs.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets lanceolate to oblanceolate-elliptic, up to 58 mm. long and 23 mm. wide, acute to rounded and mucronate, cuneate, glabrous above, rather densely appressed pubescent or pilose beneath; petiole up to 8–20 mm. long.. Stipules subulate or filiform, (1–)2–5 mm. long.. Racemes terminal and leaf-opposed, shortly pedunculate, up to 4–10(–32) cm. long, with a number of flowers rather closely arranged at least towards the top; bracts shortly caudate-lanceolate, ± 2–3 mm. long; bracteoles inserted on the upper part of the pedicel, linear, 1–2 mm. long.. Calyx rather abruptly contracted at the base, 5–6 mm. long, appressed pubescent; lobes triangular-deltoid, usually a little longer than the tube.. Standard suborbicular, yellow, sometimes veined brownish-purple, pubescent along the midvein outside or rarely glabrous; wings subequal to or a little longer than the keel; keel rounded about the middle, with an incurved untwisted beak, 12–13 mm. long.. Pod stipitate, laterally much flattened, elliptic-oblong in outline, 22–23 mm. long, 11–12 mm. wide, tomentellous, 2–4-seeded; stipe 3–4 mm. long; style very persistent.. Seeds unknown.
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