Perennial herb, 10-15 cm tall, flowering in spring. Stems erect, densely covered with straw-coloured hairs. Leaves mostly 1-foliolate, 6-9 cm long, 2.5-3.0 cm wide, narrow-elliptic to narrow-ovate to lanceolate, apex acute, base cuneate, both sides sericeous especially along veins, glandular; margin somewhat revolute. Stipules 15-20 mm long, lanceolate, fused, glandular and hairy. Petioles 10-20 mm long. Racemes axillary, 10-15-flowered, equalling leaves, peduncle 6-9 cm long. Flowers yellow, 8-10 mm long, bracts ± 8 mm long persistent. Calyx 5-7 mm long, lobes equal, triangular, acuminate, keel lobe longest, laterals falcate, vexillar lobes free. Standard 9-10 mm long, 4.5-5.5 mm wide, clawed, reflexed, obovate, glandular and hairy, longer than keel and wings; appendages well developed, fused and hooded, free from prominent auricles. Wings 8.5-9.0 mm long, 2.0-3.2 mm wide at maximum, oblong, auriculate, longer than keel. Keel blades 6.0-7.0 mm long, 3 mm wide at maximum, glandular and hairy, pocket present. Staminal sheath 5.5-6.0 mm long, free stamen geniculate, 5.4-6.0 mm long; anthers uniform. Gynoecium 5 mm long; ovary 2.5 mm long with 0.5 mm gynophore, densely covered with long hairs, curvature 2.0 mm high; stigma capitate, exerted beyond stamens. Nectary present; margin revolute. Mature fruits and seeds not seen.
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