Shrub to 3 m tall; indumentum brown to grey-brown, the hairs coiled. Leaves: stipules 0.7–1.2 mm long; petiole 3–4 mm long; lamina very narrow-elliptic to lorate, 5–7 cm long, 6–8 mm wide, margin recurved, upper surface smooth, hairs along midrib. Inflorescences mostly of 2 flowers, usually sessile; pedicel 2–4 mm long, bract inserted 0.5–1.5 mm distal to base; bract and bracteoles narrow-oblong, 1.2–1.8 mm long. Calyx 3.5–4.8 mm long, tube 2–2.5 mm long, upper lip c. 4 mm wide. Standard 7–8 mm long, flare green-yellow; wing 2.5–3 mm wide. Pod sparsely hairy, sessile. Aril of seed 5–5.5 mm long, slightly expanded distally, hilum c. 4.5 mm long.
Grows in rocky sites, e.g. among granite boulders, and favours streamside habitats in rainforest-forest transitions and forest.
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