Eriosema latifolium (benth. ex Harv.) C.h.stirt.

Erect suffrutex up to 1 m tall. Stems up to 10, branching from the lower nodes, velvety. Leaves trifoliolate, basal leaves unifoliolate, 50-75 x 35-45 mm, symmetrical, obovate but also elliptic; laterals smaller, 45-60 x 20-30 mm, asymmetrical, gibbous, length-breadth ratio 1.3-1.5; densely pubescent above, dull greenish, densely woolly grey-white beneath with fulvous veins; densely glandular below but hidden beneath the hairs. Stipules 8-9(-11) x 5-6 mm, broadly ovate, tip somewhat falcate, free, clasping the stem. Petiole 3-5 mm long. Racemes axillary, 30-45-flowered, 11-22 mm long, held well above foliage; peduncles 30-75 mm long. Flowers (9)10-11 mm long, yellow; bracts 6-7 mm long, 2 mm wide, boat-shaped. Calyx 5.0-5.5 mm long, lobes equal; teeth 2 mm long, equal, shorter than the tube, long tawny-haired becoming appressed on the tube, glandular. Standard 11 mm long, narrowly obovate, clawed, weakly auriculate, glandular and pubescent on the back; appendages weakly developed, fused, thinly ridged, extending on each side downwards to the auricles but ending 1.5 mm away from them. Wing petals 11.0-11.5 x 2.5-3.0 mm, narrowly cultrate, slightly hairy along the base, somewhat pouched near the poorly developed auricle, sparsely glandular, longer than the keel blades. Keel blades 8.5-9.0 mm long, up to 3.5-4.5 mm wide; densely glandular, hairy along the base. Staminal sheath 8 mm long; free stamen geniculate; pollen variable in size. Pistil 7 mm long; ovary 2.8-3.0 mm long, densely pubescent; height of curvature 3-4 mm; stigma capitate. Fruits unknown.