Suffruticose, procumbent, much branched, thinly strigillose; branches ribbed and furrowed; leaves on longish petioles, trifoliolate; leaflets cuneate-obovate, or obovate-oblong, acute or mucronate, thinly strigillose; stipules setaceo-subulate; racemes on long, ribbed peduncles, elongate, many flowered; bracts minute; calyx cano-strigillose, its lobes setaceo-subulate; petals pubescent; legumes terete, pendulous, several-seeded, minutely strigillose.
Like I. heterophylla but procumbent, leaflets broadly obovate and truncate to retuse and racemes rounded at tips (vs. tapering).