Annual herb 20–60 cm. tall; branches reddish, rather closely covered, as are the racemes and pods, with short erect brown glandular hairs as well as longer white adpressed medifixed hairs.. Stipules subulate, up to 4 mm. long; rhachis up to 35 mm. long, including a petiole of 9–12 mm., prolonged up to 3 mm. beyond the lateral leaflets; leaflets 9–13, narrowly obovate or elliptic-oblong, rounded at the apex, up to 12 mm. long and 4 mm. wide, free from glandular hairs, appressed pilose above, strigose beneath.. Racemes 10–20-flowered, up to 25 mm. long, including a peduncle of 5–7 mm.. Calyx 2.5 mm. long; lobes narrowly deltoid-acuminate, much longer than the tube.. Corolla pubescent outside.. Stamens 3 mm. long.. Fruit curved into a semicircle, ± 17 mm. long, 1.4 mm. wide and 0.9 mm. thick, densely covered with reddish glandular hairs up to 0.7 mm. long, as well as appressed white medifixed hairs, 9–12-seeded.
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