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Straggling, gregarious, many-branched shrub or suffrutex 0.5-3 m tall. Stems to 5 cm wide, erect, ± terete or angular, densely appressed whitish strigose to glabrescent. Stipules 1-3 mm long, triangular to subulate, ± erect. Leaves pinnately 5-11-foliolate, often subfasciculate on short shoots; leaf axis 1-5 cm long, including petiole of 5-15 mm; terminal leaflet 7-21 x 4-13 mm, obovate or elliptic, apex often emarginate, base cuneate, ± densely strigose above and beneath, sometimes glabrous above. Raceme densely many-flowered, 1-12 cm long, including peduncle of 1-10 mm, often subsessile; bracts c. 1 mm long, lanceolate-cucullate; pedicels 0.5-2 mm long. Calyx 1.5-2.5 mm long, appressed whitish strigose; lobes triangular to subulate, ± equal or slightly longer than tube. Keel apex often acute. Stamens 2.5-3.8 mm long. Pod 24-40 x 3-4 mm, ± spreading or reflexed, prominently 4-angled, straight, sparsely strigose with appressed whitish hairs, covered with scattered pearl bodies. Seeds 4-9, 3-4 x c. 2 mm, oblong, ±4-angled, brown.
A shrub. It grows 0.5-4.5 m tall. The leaves have 7-11 leaflets. The leaflets are 4-20 mm long by 3-12 mm wide. The flowers are reddish. The fruit are square to winged and 3-4 cm long by 3-5 mm wide.
