Perennial, erect herb, with nodular rootstock, 0.1-0.6 m high; stems sparsely appressed grey-sericeous. Leaflets narrowly elliptic, acute, ‘fish-bone’-nerved; upper surface glabrous; lower surface densely silvery-white appressed pilose with longer appressed hairs on veins. Flowers pink-orange or yellow. Calyx sparsely long-sericeous; segments longer than tube. Pod dark gold-coloured shaggy-haired.
Suffrutex, up to 0.6 m high. Stems erect; stems, petioles and peduncles cano-sericeous. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets linear to narrowly ovate, up to 100 mm long, upper surface green, lower surface silky white, penninerved; stipules free. Flowers: corolla yellow and red; Oct.-Mar. Pods 10-15 mm long.
An erect herb or small shrub. It grows 50 cm tall. The stems are slender and with few branches. They have silky hairs. The leaves are compound with 3 leaflets.