Procumbent perennial, with a woody rootstock and long trailing thinly appressed puberulous stems.. Leaves shortly petiolate, mostly 3-foliolate, the uppermost often 1-foliolate; leaflets oblong-elliptic, up to 50 mm. long and 23 mm. wide, chartaceous, glabrous (except along midvein) and glossy above, sparsely puberulous with short stiff appressed hairs beneath; petiole 2–4 mm. long.. Stipules subulate or linear-caudate, up to 5 mm. long.. Racemes terminal and lateral, pedunculate, up to 9–13 cm. long, with ± 6–10 laxly arranged flowers; bracts linear-caudate, up to 7 mm. long; bracteoles inserted on the upper part of the pedicel, linear, 2·5–5 mm. long.. Calyx nearly as long as the keel or exceeding it, accrescent, up to 10–15 mm. long, densely covered with very short stiff appressed white hairs; lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, up to 4 times as long as the tube.. Standard sub-orbicular, bright yellow inside, purplish-brown and yellow flushed outside, conspicuously appressed puberulous; wings a little shorter than the keel; keel rounded about the middle, almost semiorbicular, with a distinct crest preceding the short incurved circumflexed beak, 12–13 mm. long.. Pod shortly stipitate, ellipsoid-clavate, ± 27 mm. long, 10 mm. across, brown tomentellous and ultimately glabrescent outside, spreading pubescent inside, up to ± 14-seeded.. Mature seeds not seen.
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