Low spreading perennial, sometimes rooting at the nodes; stems reddish with a very few appressed hairs, often rather woody at the base.. Stipules subulate-setaceous, up to 5 mm. long; rhachis sparingly strigulose, up to 43 mm. long, including a petiole of up to 5 mm., prolonged some 2 mm. beyond the lateral leaflets; leaflets 7–13, with well-developed filiform stipellae, narrowly cuneate-oblong, mucronate, up to 15 mm. long and 5 mm. wide, glabrous or nearly so above, strigulose beneath.. Racemes 10–25-flowered, sparingly strigulose, up to 20 cm. long, including a peduncle of up to 5 cm.; bracts filiform, 1–5 mm. long, caducous; pedicels 1.5 mm. long, ± reflexed after flowering.. Calyx sparingly strigulose, up to 5 mm. long; lobes narrowly triangular, longer than the tube, the lower lobe longer than the others.. Standard white puberulent outside; wings and keel puberulent at the margins.. Stamens 13–15 mm. long.. Fruit with thickened sutures, somewhat upturned near the apex, beaked, ± 4 cm. long and 2.5 mm. wide, glabrous, ± 13-seeded.
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