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Leaves yellow-green, frequently developing after flowering has commenced; leaflets 1–3, 1.8–6 × 0.7–2.5 cm, oblong-elliptic to broadly elliptic, rounded or emarginate at the apex, rounded or cuneate at the base; both surfaces densely glandular but otherwise glabrous save that the margins and sometimes the veins and midrib beneath are ciliate; petiole c. 2 mm long; rhachis 4–9 mm long; petiolules 1–1.5 mm long; stipules 5–9 × c. 2 mm, ovate-lanceolate, margins ciliate, veined.
Racemes axillary, the flowering part 3–5 × c. 1.5 cm; peduncle 2.5–14 cm long, sparingly pilose and glandular; pedicels 2 mm long, strongly deflexed; bracts falling very early, 3 × 1.2 mm, small, ciliate at the margins.
Calyx glabrescent and glandular, 3.5–4 mm long; lobes triangular, one-third to one-half as long as the tube, margins ciliate.
Erect pyrophytic herb with several to many ± unbranched stems 7–42 cm tall from a large woody rootstock.
Stems of 3–6 internodes, dark purplish-brown, glabrescent or sparsely pilose and with sparse glands.
Standard yellow, 6–8(10) × 3–4 mm, elliptic-oblong, with a very few short hairs and glands outside.
Pods 11–16 × 7–10 mm, obliquely oblong, very shortly stipitate, with sparse long hairs and glands.
Seeds (immature) purple, 4.5–5.5 × 2.5–3.5 × 1.3 mm, oblong; rim aril yellow-brown.
Similar in habit to E. parviflorum, 6–12 in high, from a woody base.
Flowers sweetly scented.
