Perennial, with several prostrate, decumbent or weakly ascending stems up to 3 dm. long, but often much shorter.. Stems rather densely pubescent with appressed or spreading rather silvery hairs.. Leaves shortly petiolate, 3-foliolate; leaflets oblanceolate, elliptic or obovate, up to 23–48 mm. long and 4–15 mm. wide, rather densely silvery appressed pilose on both surfaces, the median and lateral veins often prominent beneath; petiole up to 5–7 mm. long.. Stipules linear or linear-lanceolate, up to 5–10 mm. long.. Racemes long-pedunculate, up to 6–11 cm. long, with ± 3–8 flowers towards the top; bracts subulate, 1·5–4 mm. long; bracteoles inserted at the base of the calyx, linear or subulate, up to 1·5–3 mm. long.. Calyx (5–)6–8 mm. long, appressed pilose; lobes narrowly triangular, 2–3 times as long as the tube.. Standard broadly elliptic or suborbicular, yellow, veined and tinged reddish-purple outside, with a few hairs medially and apically outside; wings ± as long as the keel; keel rather abruptly rounded below the middle, with a fairly short straight untwisted beak, 10–12(–13) mm. long.. Pod practically sessile, subcylindrical, sometimes slightly broadened towards the apex, up to 24 mm. long, shortly pubescent, ± 24–32-seeded.. Seeds oblique-cordiform, 3–4 mm. long, smooth, brown.
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