Standard elliptic, pointed, pale yellow, tomentellous outside; wings markedly shorter than the keel; keel 10–12 mm long, angular, with a long narrow twisted beak.
Flowers (2)6–16 in sessile terminal heads, also clustered in a few axils below; bracts 2–4 mm long, linear; pedicel 3–5 mm long, without bracteoles.
Small annual 2–10 cm tall; stem erect, densely appressed or subappressed pubescent, developing numerous ascending branches from near the base.
Calyx 5 mm long, silky tomentose; upper lobes narrowly triangular, 2–3 times as long as the tube.
Pod sessile, 7–8 × 3.5–4 mm, oblong-ellipsoid, appressed pubescent, 20–24-seeded.
Mature seeds not seen.