Short-lived semi-woody bushy plant ± 1 m. tall, sometimes prostrate, densely covered with fine soft silvery hairs which are often rather spreading.. Stipules brown, filiform, 2–3 mm. long; rhachis up to 1 cm. long, including a petiole of 1–3 mm., not, or very shortly, prolonged beyond lateral leaflets; leaflets 3–7, rarely 9, narrowly oblong-cuneate or oblanceolate, up to 10 mm. long and 3 mm. wide.. Racemes 5–20-flowered, up to 3 cm. long including a peduncle of up to 2 mm.; bracts linear ± 1 mm. long, caducous; pedicels ± 1 mm. long, erect, leaving a pronounced knob on falling off.. Calyx ± 1.5 mm. long, divided to about the middle into broadly triangular lobes with thick subulate tips.. Corolla ± 5 mm. long, silvery appressed pubescent outside.. Stamens ± 4.5 mm. long.. Fruit usually subglobular, 2 mm. in diameter, tapering into the persistent style-base, 1-seeded, occasionally up to 5 mm. long and 2–3-seeded; endocarp mottled.
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