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Inflorescences borne on leafy shoots, densely strobilate, 2–5 cm long; bracts greenish-yellow, becoming brown, 10–18 × 10–15(23) mm, rounded, divided into two lobes for half to two-thirds of their length; lobes ovate, acute or acuminate, denticulate, glabrous or pilose; bracteoles 2–5 × 1–3 mm, lanceolate, ciliate; peduncle 1–3(5) mm long, scabrid-pubescent; pedicels 1 mm long.
Fruit of 1 rounded kettle-drum-shaped article, 4–5.5 × 4–4.5 mm, the upper margin ± straight, the lower margin strongly curved, glabrous, nervose.
Stems erect, robust, woody, sparsely to densely covered with stiff tubercular-based hairs, scabrid, mostly dark brown.
Calyx lobes sparsely pubescent or glabrescent, 7–10 × 3 mm, oblong-lanceolate, the upper entire, the lower 3-fid.
Seeds dark crimson-brown, 3 × 2.5 × 1.5 mm, reniform; the small hilum eccentric.
Standard yellow or orange, 8–9 × 3–4 mm, oblong with a slight waist.
Subshrub 0.4–1.5 m tall.
