Shrub or tree 1-3 m tall with spinescent, short shoots to 7 cm long. Leaves: axes ±puberulous; glands peg-like at each pinna and often at leaflet pairs; pinnae 1-2 (-3)-jugate; leaflets 5-7 (-9)-jugate, inequilaterally oblong to narrowly oblong, 4-8 mm long, 2-8 mm wide, glabrous, with a rounded or minutely apiculate apex. Inflorescence spicate, 2.5-7.5 cm long; peduncles 0.8-4 cm long, puberulous. Pod linear, flat, straight, curved or, usually, undulate and coiled, contorted, 3-6.5 cm long, 7-10 mm wide, glabrous. Seeds compressed, oblong or elliptic, 4.5-6 mm long, 3-4.5 mm wide, tan-brown, glossy; pleurogram large, obovate.
Grows along streams and bordering swamps in sand, sandy loam, loam, clay and stony clay soils.
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