Shrubs, 30-120 cm tall, many branched, all parts except for old stems with very dense appressed silvery medifixed 2-branched trichomes. Old stems grayish brown; lateral branches short. Stipules ovate, ca. 0.5 mm. Leaves 1-2.5 cm, 5-9-foliolate; petiole and rachis adaxially slightly grooved; petiole 3-7 mm; stipels ca. 0.1 mm, covered with silvery trichomes, usually not visible; petiolules ca. 0.5 mm; leaflet blades opposite, obcordate to obovate, 4-5 × 2.5-3 mm, midvein adaxially impressed, secondary veins not visible, base broadly cuneate to rounded, apex rounded to emarginate. Racemes 1-5 cm; peduncle 4-10 mm; bracts ca. 0.8 mm, caducous. Pedicel ca. 1 mm. Calyx ca. 2 mm; teeth ovate-oblong, as long as tube, margin ciliate. Corolla red; standard elliptic-oblong to ovate-oblong, ca. 7 mm, outside densely hairy; wings ca. 7 mm, outside hairy; keel ca. 7 mm. Stamens 5-6.5 mm; anthers ovoid, apex mucronate. Ovary hairy; style glabrous. Legume cylindric, 1.5-2.5 cm, with dense appressed grayish white medifixed trichomes, apex mucronate; endocarp purplish red blotched. Fl. Jul, fr. Aug.
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