Perennial with numerous slender prostrate or slightly ascending stems from a well-developed taproot, up to 4 dm. long.. Stems simple or ultimately laxly branched, shortly and densely pubescent with mostly spreading hairs, eventually glabrescent.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, up to 13–20 mm. long and 3–6 mm. wide, mostly rounded at the apex, finely white pubescent on both surfaces; petiole ± 5–15 mm. long.. Stipules absent.. Racemes subsessile to shortly pedunculate, up to 3·5(–15) cm. long, with a number of rather laxly arranged to crowded flowers; bracts linear-lanceolate, 1–1·5 mm. long, shorter than the pedicel; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, filiform, inconspicuous.. Calyx 3·5–4 mm. long, with the tube protracted on the lower side, densely pubescent with mostly slightly spreading hairs; upper lobes subtriangular, longer than the tube.. Standard obovate or suborbicular, yellow, veined reddish-purple and pubescent outside; wings scarcely shorter than the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower third, with a narrow slightly incurved twisted beak, 6–7 mm. long.. Pod sessile, ovoid-globose, 5–6 mm. long, densely pubescent, with 1–2 seeds developed from the 6–10 ovules.. Mature seeds unknown.
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