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Racemes axillary, usually appearing before the leaves and mostly emanating from the lower bare part of the stem or from scale axils just below ground level, the flowering part 1–3.5 × 1.5 cm; peduncle 2–7.5 cm long, pubescent; pedicels 1–2 mm long; bracts 3 × 0.5 mm, linear, pubescent.
Standard white or yellow outside, with red or brown veining or flushing, white or yellow inside, 6.5–8.5 × 4–6 mm, oblong-obovate, pubescent in the median area, with few or no glands.
Erect herb with several to many unbranched stems c. 30 cm tall, from a woody rootstock with roots bearing tubers 2–4 × 1 cm; plants pyrophytic sometimes flowering when only 5 cm tall.
An erect herb. It has several unbranched stems. It grows 30 cm high It has a woody rootstock. The roots bear tubers 1 cm across and 2-4 cm long.
Calyx pubescent, without or with only sparse yellow glands, 4.5–5 mm long; lobes narrowly triangular, acuminate, ± equalling the tube.
Pods 1–1.3 × 0.9–1 cm, elliptic-oblong, covered with long hairs c. 1.5 mm long and also glands.
Seeds brown with dark speckling, 5.5 × 3.5 × 1.5 mm, oblong; rim aril cream-coloured.
Stems ridged, pubescent.
