Spreading or prostrate, annual or short-lived perennial herb, 0.05–0.15 m high; young stems ridged, hirsute with dense, somewhat spreading, equally or unequally biramous hairs. Leaves pinnate, with 3–7 leaflets; stipules triangular, 2.5–5 mm long, pubescent; petiole 4–7 mm long; rachis furrowed; multicellular hairs absent; stipellae absent; leaflets alternate or subopposite, elliptic to obovate, 5–16 mm long, 2.5–6 mm wide, upper and lower surface green to grey, with sparse to moderately dense, appressed to shortly spreading hairs, apex acute or obtuse and mucronate. Inflorescences 5–13 mm long, subsessile, shorter than leaves; bracts narrowly triangular, 0.8–1.2 mm long; pedicel 0–0.5 mm long; flowers red. Calyx 2.5–3.5 mm long; lobes equal, much longer than the length of the tube and covered with moderately dense to dense, grey, shortly spreading hairs. Standard obovate, 2.5–3 mm long, 1.3–1.9 mm wide. Wings oblong to narrowly obovate, 2.5–2.8 mm long, 0.6 mm wide. Keel 2.7–3 mm long, 0.8–0.9 mm deep; lateral pockets 0.3–0.5 mm long; apex acute; glabrous. Staminal tube 1.5–1.8 mm long, colourless. Ovary moderately hairy. Pods ascending, shortly cylindrical and slightly torulose, 3–7 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, grey to pale brown, strigose; hairs sparse to moderately dense, appressed to shortly spreading; apex shortly pointed; endocarp not spotted; seeds ± spherical, 2–4 per fruit.
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