Erect to prostrate shrub or subshrub 0.2–1 m high, with woody rootstock; young stems terete to ridged, usually grey-white, sometimes new growth distinctly rusty-brown, strigose or tomentose with dense to very dense, appressed to spreading, equally biramous hairs. Leaves unifoliolate with point of articulation; stipules narrowly triangular, (1–) 1.5–3.5 mm long, usually persistent; petiole (3.5–) 6–8.5 (–10.5) mm long; rachis furrowed, often slightly; multicellular hairs at point of articulation, few, short and dark. Leaflet with small to conspicuous stipellae to 0.5 mm long; lamina obovate to orbicular, 10–40 mm long, (8–) 10–25 (–33) mm wide; upper surface grey to white with rather dense, appressed to spreading hairs; lower surface grey to white with appressed to spreading hairs; apex obtuse and mucronate; veins often impressed above and prominent below. Inflorescences 55–150 mm long, equal to, or longer than the leaf; peduncle 8–24 mm long; bracts triangular 1–2.5 (–4) mm long; flowers red to deep red or maroon, pedicel c. 0.5 mm long. Calyx 2–3 (–4.5) mm long, with unequal to subequal lobes less than to longer than the length of the tube and dense, white or brown, appressed hairs. Standard ovate, (5.5–) 7–9 mm high, 4–6 mm wide, the back densely clothed with appressed, coppery (rarely white) hairs. Wings spathulate, 5.5–6.5 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, ± glabrous. Keel 7–9 mm long, 2–3 mm deep; lateral pockets 0.7–1.5 mm long; apex acute, hairs moderately dense to dense, golden brown, at the tip and along the bottom; margins ciliate. Staminal tube 4.5–5.5 (–7) mm long, pigmented. Ovary moderately to densely hairy. Pods spreading to descending, terete, 17–32 mm long, 2–3 mm deep, grey, hairs moderately dense to dense, appressed; apex pointed; endocarp spotted; seeds 4–8 per fruit.
The species has been found on rocky hills on limestone and ironstone substrates, but also on loamy plains, and adjacent to watercourses.
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