Perennial herb, 10-12 cm tall, flowering in spring. Steins trailing, prostrate or decumbent, finely pubescent with reflexed yellowish hairs. Leaves 1-foliolate, rarely the lowest leaves 3-foliolate, 4.0-5.5 cm long and wide, broadly ovate, apex blunt with a point, base cordate, both sides sparingly sericeous especially along the veins, sparsely glandular, margin revolute. Stipules 5-7(10 mm long, lanceolate, connate but occasionally splitting when old, sericeous. Petioles 2-4 mm long. Racemes axillary, (10)20-30-flowered, exceeding the foliage, peduncle 5-6 cm long. Flowers yellow, 10-12 mm long, bracts ± half the length of the flower, rapidly caducous. Calyx 4 mm long, lobes equal in length; teeth triangular, shorter than (rarely equalling) the tube, softly pubescent and sparingly glandular. Standard ±12 mm long, 5 mm wide, oblong, equal in length to the wing petals but always exceeding the keel; appendages slightly fused, free from auricles. Wings 12 mm long, 3 mm wide, oblong, auriculate, pouched, longer than the keel. Keel 8 mm long, 3 mm wide, strongly glandular, sparingly pubescent along base, pocket present. Staminal sheath 7 mm long, free stamen geniculate; anthers uniform, alternately long-basifixed and short-medifixed. Gynoecium 1 mm long; ovary 4 mm long with 1 mm long gynophore, densely sericeous, curvature of style 3 mm high; stigma capitate. Nectary present, high as gynophore; margin erose. Fruit 12 mm long, 10 mm wide, oblong with a prominent 3 mm long beak, sericeous and finely pubescent. Seed not seen. Flowering occurs between October and December.
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