Rounded, spinescent, bushy shrub, up to 1 m tall, stems woody below, rigid, divaricately branched, terete and green, greyish strigose above. Leaves few, digitately 3-foliolate, leaflets obovate-oblong. Flowers in subsessile to shortly pedunculate, stiffly ascending axillary racemes, red, calyx densely strigose, shorter than stamens, lobes subulate, ± as long as tube, standard densely strigose on back. Pod laterally compressed.