Perennial herb, stems of indeterminate length, several from the crown, subsimple, prostrate, very slender, subglabrous, only very occasional appressed biramous hairs present. Stipules 2-8 x 0.5-2 mm, obliquely lanceolate-acuminate. Leaves on petioles 12-80 mm long, digitately trifoliolate; leaflets 8-20 x 8-18 mm, the terminal one a little larger than the two laterals, obovate-cuneate, apex almost truncate, mucronate, base cuneate, upper surface nearly glabrous, lower sparsely strigillose, the hairs biramous, appressed. Peduncles c. 100-300 mm long, racemes several-flowered, elongating. Bracts c. 2 mm long, linear-acuminate, soon deciduous. Pedicels c. long, strigillose. Calyx 3 mm long, lobed about halfway, lobes lanceolate, very acute to shortly acuminate, strigillose. Standard 7-8 mm long, glabrous, wings glabrous, keel spurred, tip rounded, upper margin fringed with delicate patent hairs, all petals light scarlet or crimson. Anthers with connective produced at apex into a small point, tuft of hair at bases of lobes. Legume (immature) 18 x 1.5 mm, glabrous, deflexed.
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