Suffrutex up to 600 mm tall. Stems erect, branching from the base, densely covered with golden deflexed appressed hairs. Leaves trifoliolate, 45-60 x 35-45 mm, obovate, inland populations with leaflets becoming narrower, more acute and ovate; strigose above, densely white pubescent below with veins prominently yellowish strigose; lateral leaflets smaller. Stipules 12-15 mm long, broadly lanceolate, free, persistent. Racemes axillary, 24-45-flowered, greatly exceeding the leaves. Flowers greenish yellow, 12-15 mm long with persistent 10-15 mm long, 3 mm wide boat-shaped bracts. Calyx lobes equal. Standard 10-15 x 6-7 mm, obovate, prominently clawed and auriculate, appendages well developed, fused, upcurled, extending from above the claw into the auricles. Wing petals equal in length to the keel, pouched. Keel petals pocketed, encrusted with small yellow glands. Staminal sheath 10 mm long; free stamen geniculate. Pistil 10 mm long; ovary 5 mm long, subsessile, densely hairy, extending halfway along style to point of flexure, height of curvature 4 mm; stigma capitate, exserted beyond stamens. Nectary present, margin undulate. Fruit 14-16 x 8-9 mm, thickly covered with a mixture of long yellowish hairs and short white pubescence, glandular; upper margin double convex, lower margin convex-concave, beaked. Seeds 6 mm long, 4 mm wide, oval, pale chestnut brown; cotyledons well developed, radicle short, barely protruding from apex, plumule exserted.
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