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Inflorescence often on leafless shoots, densely strobilate, 1.5–3 cm long; peduncle 1–15 mm long, pubescent; pedicels 3 mm long; bracts green or yellow, often turning reddish, 7–15 × 8–15 mm, rounded, divided into two lobes for one-quarter to half of their length, or outer ones for their entire length; lobes ovate, obtuse, glabrous, ciliate-denticulate; bracteoles 1.6–2.5 × 0.8–1 mm, lanceolate, sparsely ciliate.
Subshrub with slender rampant stems 0.5–1 m long, mostly purplish-brown, pubescent bifariously or all round with tubercular-based hairs but scarcely scabrid.
Seeds chestnut-brown, compressed, 3.2–3.5 mm long and wide, l.5 mm thick, almost round in outline; hilum small, eccentric.
Fruit of 1 kettle-drum-shaped article, 5.5 mm long and wide, the upper margin straight, the lower margin very rounded.
Calyx lobes glabrous, 7–8 × 3 mm, elliptic-oblong, the upper 2-fid, the lower 3-fid.
Standard yellow or orange, 6–10 × 5–8.5 mm, panduriform.
