Perennial with mostly decumbent or prostrate radiating stems up to 4 dm. long, well branched and with new shoots arising underground from adventitious buds on the root-like stock.. Stems rather densely appressed puberu-lous, with short rigid white hairs, ultimately glabrescent.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets linear-oblanceolate to oblanceolate or occasionally obovate, ± 5–13 (–20) mm. long, 1·5–6 mm. wide, glabrous above, appressed puberulous beneath; petiole ± 3–7 mm. long.. Stipules filiform, up to 1 mm. long.. Racemes relatively long-pedunculate, up to 2–5(–9) cm. long, usually with few laxly arranged flowers towards the top or practically subumbelliform; bracts linear-lanceolate, up to 1·5(–2·5) mm. long; bracteoles inserted on the pedicel, very small.. Calyx 3·5–5 mm. long, with the tube protracted on the lower side, appressed puberulous; upper lobes triangular, longer than the tube.. Standard obovate-orbicular, yellow, veined purplish and puberulous along the midvein outside; wings almost as long as the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower half, with a narrow twisted beak, 7–9 mm. long.. Pod oblong-clavate, narrowed basally to the very short stipe, ± 8–14(–24) mm. long, 3–5 mm. across, rather densely appressed puberulous, ± 10–16-seeded.. Seeds oblique-cordiform, ± 1·5 mm. long, rugulose, brown.. Fig. 132, p. 963.
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