Spreading somewhat rounded shrub, 0.4–0.8 m high; young stems terete, green and covered with small green, red or black warts which also occur on the leaf margin and lower surface, stems, stipules and bracts; hairs sparse, appressed, equally biramous. Leaves simple; stipules triangular to linear, 0.4–3 mm long, glabrescent, adnate to the leaf base and falling with it; petiole 0.7–1.5 mm long; stipellae absent. Lamina very narrow and obovate, or linear, 20–47 mm long; 1–3 (–6) mm wide, with the sides folded upwards about the midrib with the edges usually meeting and the mucronate apex distinctly turned down or hooked; upper surface green, with sparse, appressed hairs; lower surface green with sparse, appressed hairs. Inflorescences 80–180 mm long, longer than leaves; peduncle 15–22 mm long; bracts triangular, 0.7–1.2 mm long; flowers pink to purple, pedicel 0.5–0.8 mm long. Calyx 1.8–2.5 mm long, with subequal lobes equal to the length of the tube, and moderately dense, white, appressed hairs. Standard pink, elliptical to obovate, 3.5–4.5 mm high, 3 mm wide. Wings oblong, 3.5–4 mm long, 1–1.3 mm wide. Keel 4–4.8 mm long, 1.5 mm deep; lateral pockets 0.8–0.9 mm long; apex beaked; hairs moderately dense, golden to brown, along the bottom. Staminal tube 2.5–3 mm long, colourless. Ovary sparsely hairy. Pods ascending to descending, terete, 16–26 mm long, 2.5–3.5 mm deep, brown, glabrous but covered with sticky fluid; apex shortly pointed; endocarp spotted; seeds 6 per fruit.
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