Bushy shrub, up to 2 m. tall.. Branches tomentellous with short brownish spreading hairs.. Leaves mostly on very short axillary shoots, appearing fasciculate, 3-foliolate; leaflets oblanceolate-elliptic to oblong-obovate, up to 15 mm. long and 6 mm. wide, glabrous above, appressed puberulous beneath; petiole slender, ± 7–15 mm. long.. Stipules linear, up to 2 mm. long.. Inflorescences of 2 sorts, both lax few-flowered terminal or leaf-opposed racemes, up to 4 cm. long, and also 1–2 flowers on filiform peduncles, up to 18 mm. long, apparently axillary from the leaf-clusters; bracts linear-subulate, ± as long as the pedicel, 2–3 mm. long; bracteoles inserted at the base of the calyx, filiform, 1·5–2 mm. long.. Calyx ± 9 mm. long, with the tube protracted on the lower side, rather densely appressed puberulous; upper lobes lanceolate-triangular, considerably longer than the tube, becoming reflexed.. Standard suborbicular, yellow, veined brownish-purple, tomentellous outside; wings a little shorter than the keel, puberulous on the lateral surfaces; keel bent at right-angles in the lower half, with a well-developed twisted beak, 12–13 mm. long, thinly puberulous on the lateral surfaces.. Pod and seeds unknown.
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