Perennial herb, up to 15 cm tall, spring flowering. Stems many, matted, prostrate or decumbent, branching at the base, finely pubescent with reflexed yellowish hairs. Leaves 3-foliolate, with lower leaves always 1-foliolate, 3.5-6.5 cm long, 2.5-3.5 cm wide, rounded to ovate, becoming elliptic, both surfaces green, finely pubescent above and below, lower surface with prominent raised venation. Stipules semi-connate. Rhachis 3-4 mm long. Racemes 6-8 flowered, overtopping leaflets. Flowers pale pink and yellow, 9-10 mm long, 3 mm wide, bract up to 5 mm long. Calyx 6 mm long, teeth ± equal to tube. Standard 9 mm long, 6 mm wide, obovate, somewhat hooded, back tomentose, glandular; appendages present, above the claw, fused and extending to weakly developed auricles. Wing petals 9 mm long, longer than keel, prominent peg present which fits tightly into the pocketed keel, sparsely glandular and hairy. Keel petals densely glandular. Gynoecium 6 mm long; ovary densely pubescent. Fruit 15-16 mm long, 10 mm wide, obliquely oblong with 2 mm long beak, softly yellow pubescent, glandular. Seed 5-6 mm long, 3 mm wide, chestnut brown with purple flecks.
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