Prostrate perennial, with a number of slender laxly branched radiating stems up to 4–9 dm. long.. Stems angular, white appressed puberulous.. Leaves mostly well spaced, 3–foliolate; leaflets linear-oblanceolate, up to 30–45 mm. long, 3–5 mm. wide, glabrous above, appressed puberulous beneath; petiole up to 9–15(–22) mm. long.. Stipules usually stalked, obliquely linear-lanceolate, up to 7–10 mm. long, 1–2·5 mm. wide, acute,very unequal-sided.. Racemes flat on the ground with only the pedicels ascending, lax, up to 5–18 cm. long, ± 6–15–flowered; bracts linear, 2–4 mm. long, caducous; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, filiform, up to 2–3·5 mm. long.. Calyx 9–10 mm. long, appressed puberulous; lobes narrowly attenuate-triangular, longer than the tube.. Standard suborbicular, clear yellow, fading orange, glabrous outside; wings broadly oblong, longer than the keel; keel strongly rounded and gradually tapered into the short straight blunt untwisted beak, 14–15 mm. long, densely white lanate-pubescent on the lateral surfaces towards the upper margin.. Pod shortly stipitate, narrowly cylindrical, ± 35 mm. long, 7·5 mm. across, glabrous, ± 22-seeded.. Young seeds oblong-reniform, minutely granulate or smooth, yellowish, with a very small white aril much shorter than the sinus of the hilum; mature seeds unknown.
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