Inflorescences dense, elongate, either arising directly from the rootstock or later axillary on the leafy shoots, simple or branched, 6.5–20 cm long including a peduncle up to ± one-third the length; pedicels 4–8 mm long; bracts 6–7 × 2.5–4 mm, obovate-acuminate, silky white pubescent outside.
Suffrutex from a woody rootstock up to 2.5(3.5) cm wide, with red juice, producing at first up to 20 leafless flowering branches 15–22 cm tall and later developing leafy branches 0.6–2 m tall; stems with dense whitish velvety tomentum.
Standard orange or golden-yellow, reddish-brown or purple-brown striate outside, 12–18 × 7–8 mm, ± obovate, densely silvery hairy on outer face; wings yellow and keel greenish-yellow flushed purple-brown at tip, 1.3–1.6 cm long.
Calyx densely silvery hairy; tube 4–5 mm long; lobes lanceolate, very unequal, the upper joined for half their length, laterals 5–7 mm long, lower one c. 10 mm long.
Seeds dark purple, 5.5 × 3.5 mm, oblong-ellipsoid, very compressed, with yellow rim aril 4 × 1 mm.
Pods 2–2.2 × 0.9–1.2 cm, oblong-elliptic, mucronate, densely silky white hairy.