Spreading to erect subshrub or shrub to 1.25 m high; young stems terete or slightly ridged, strigose with dense to very dense, appressed and shortly spreading, equally biramous hairs. Leaves pinnate, usually with 9–15 leaflets; stipules triangular, distinctly thickened, 1.5–4 mm long, spinescent, persistent; petiole 1–4 (–7) mm long; rachis furrowed, multicellular hairs between leaflet pairs sparse to dense, usually conspicuous; leaflets opposite, obovate, 2–8.5 mm long, 1–5.5 mm wide, apex obtuse, upper surface with sparsely appressed hairs, lower surface with denser appressed hairs. Inflorescences equal to, or longer than leaves; peduncle to c. 20 mm long; bracts triangular to ovate (sometimes thickened and persistent), usually 1–2 mm long. Calyx with subequal lobes less than or equal to the length of the tube, clothed with moderately dense to dense, dark, appressed or shortly spreading hairs. Petals to c. 9 mm long. Staminal tube mostly 4.5–6.5 mm long. Ovary moderately hairy. Pods spreading to descending, terete, sparsely to densely hairy; apex shortly pointed; endocarp spotted; seeds up to 10 per fruit.
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