Perennial herb with several stiffly erect often unbranched stems from a woody rootstock, 0·3–0·9 m. tall.. Branches very leafy with short internodes, densely ferruginous hairy.. Leaflets 3, paler beneath, mostly deflexed, elliptic, 2–5 cm. long, 1–2 cm. wide, acute, cuneate, pilose to densely hairy on both surfaces or only on the nerves beneath, sparsely glandular above, densely glandular beneath; primary venation raised beneath; tertiary venation reticulate; leaflet-surface often plicate; petiole 0·7–1·5 cm. long; rhachis ± 1 mm. long; petiolules 1–2 mm. long; stipules leaf-opposed, mostly brown, lanceolate, 1·3–1·5 cm. long, 3–3·5(–5) mm. wide, hairy, closely veined.. Racemes terminal and in the upper axils, frequently giving a falsely corymbose effect, dense, 1·5–3·5(–4·5) cm. long above a ferruginous peduncle 0·5–8 cm. long, 1·8–2 cm. wide, woolly; pedicels obsolete; bracts persistent, conspicuously protruding from the wool, lanceolate, 0·8–1·1 cm. long, 1–2 mm. wide, acuminate, densely hairy.. Calyx densely hairy outside, pubescent inside, 6–9 mm. long; lobes unequal, narrowly triangular or linear, acuminate, ± equalling the tube.. Corolla partly hidden by the densely hairy longer bracts and scarcely shorter calyces; standard reddish brown outside, yellow striped with reddish-brown inside, oblong or obovate, 6·5–9 mm. long, 3·5–4 mm. wide, glabrescent or very sparsely hairy, glandular; wings and keel orange-yellow.. Pods oval-oblong, 1–1·4 cm. long, 6–7 mm. wide, covered with long ferruginous hairs, shorter hairs and glands.. Immature seeds oblong, longest dimension 3·5 mm., shorter dimension 2·5 mm.
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