Inflorescences on leafy shoots, densely strobilate, sometimes branched, 1.5–4 cm long; peduncle 5–10 mm long; pedicels 3–4 mm long; bracts turning reddish, 7–13 × 8–22 mm, ovate, divided into two lobes for about one-third of their length; lobes ovate, acuminate, ciliate-denticulate and mostly pubescent; bracteoles 3 × 1 mm, lanceolate, sparsely ciliate.
Fruit of 1 kettle-drum-shaped article, 7.5 × 6 mm, the upper margin straight, the lower margin very rounded.
Calyx lobes glabrous, 8–9 × 2–4 mm, elliptic-oblong, the upper almost entire, the lower shortly 3-fid.
Stems at first scabrid with short tubercular-based hairs which wear off on the older stems.
Standard yellow, 8 × 4 mm, oblong with a slight waist.
Ripe seeds not seen.
Shrub 45–90 cm tall.