Shrub up to 3·3 m. tall, often rather thin-stemmed and straggling.. Branches appressed silvery pubescent, glabrescent, with the epidermis thinly peeling on the older parts to expose the greenish lenticellate bark beneath.. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic, rarely ovate or obovate, up to 28–41 mm. long, 18–22 mm. wide, silvery appressed pilose on both surfaces; petiole slender, up to 16–24 mm. long.. Stipules filiform, up to 2–4 mm. long, caducous.. Racemes lax, up to 18 cm. long, up to 15–20-flowered; bracts filiform, up to 2–6 mm. long; bracteoles curved-ascending from middle of pedicel, linear, 2–5 mm. long.. Calyx 10–14 mm. long, thinly appressed puberulous; lobes long attenuate-triangular, ± twice as long as the tube.. Standard suborbicular, yellow, finely speckled dull purple and apically pubescent outside; wings ± as long as the keel; keel rounded about the middle, with a short incurved untwisted beak, 11–13 mm. long, lanate-pubescent on the upper margin.. Pod shortly stipitate, oblong-clavate, ± 35–45 mm. long, ± 10 mm. across, appressed pubescent, ± 20-seeded.. Seeds oblique-cordiform, ± 4 mm. long, rugulose, with the raised areas concentric towards the margin, ochre.
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