Inflorescences borne on leafy shoots, densely strobilate, 8–16-flowered, 2–6 cm long; peduncle 5–7.5 mm long, pedicels 3 mm long; bracts pale green and pink, often glaucous, 7–15 × 9–20 mm, divided into 2 lobes for one-third to half their length (or in outer ones almost their entire length); lobes ovate, obtuse or acuminate, entirely to closely denticulate, glabrous or ciliate; bracteoles 2–3 × 0.5–1 mm, lanceolate, ciliate-denticulate.
Fruit of 1 kettle-drum-shaped article, 4–5 mm long and wide, the upper margin straight, the lower margin very rounded.
Seeds very dark blackish-purple, 3.8 × 3.5 × 1.3 mm, obliquely reniform, pitted; hilum small eccentric.
Stems usually many from a woody base, branched, glabrous or scabrid with tubercular-based hairs.
Calyx lobes 7 × 2.5–3 mm, ovate-oblong, the upper one entire, the lower shortly 3-fid.
Standard yellow or orange, 8–9 × 3–3.5 mm, panduriform.
Erect subshrub 0.3–2 m tall.