Plant low-growing, forming a thick carpet, much branched, pubescent when young, becoming glabrous. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate, stipulate; petioles up to 4 mm long; leaflets thickish 2-3 mm long, 2-2.5 mm broad, obovate, nigro-punctate, pubescent when young, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs when older, with distinct veining on the lower surface. Stipules minute, ovate, withering. Flowers axillary; two sessile flowers on peduncle. Peduncle bracteolate at apex. Bracts very small. Calyx-tube 3 mm long, 4.5 mm in diameter, hispid, glandular, distinctly 10-nerved; lobes oblong, obtuse, hispid, ciliate, glandular, pilose on the inner surface; upper and lateral lobes 1.5-2 mm long 0.5 mm broad; lowest lobe broadest, 2 mm long, 1 mm broad. Vexillum 3.5 mm long, 4 mm broad, obovate, geniculate, claw 1 mm long, with a slight appendage at the apex; alae 3.5 mm long, 2 mm broad, with a linear claw 2.5 mm long; carina 2 mm long 1.5 mm broad, with a linear claw 2.5 mm long. Ovary pilose; style 1.5 mm long, glabrous or very sparsely pilose. Flowers: Blue with a white vexillum.
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