Standard reddish-brown outside, 8–10 × 7(10) mm, elliptic or rounded obovate, pubescent and glandular outside; wings and keel greenish or bright yellow.
Inflorescences numerous, axillary, subsessile, paniculate, 1.5–3 cm long; pedicels 2–3 mm long; bracteoles 3 mm long, enveloping in bud, deciduous.
Pods 1.8–3 × 0.8–1.2 cm, elliptic-oblong, with a velvety covering of densely matted yellowish or silvery-grey hairs and numerous small glands.
Seeds creamy to dark reddish-brown, shiny, 6 × 4.5 × 2.1 mm, ovoid-oblong; rim aril pale cream-coloured.
Calyx pubescent and glandular, c. 5 mm long; lobes deltate, shorter than the tube.
Branches blackish, ridged, younger parts greyish pubescent, older parts glabrous.
Erect branched subshrub 0.6–1.8 m tall, sometimes flowering on leafless stems.