Annual up to 50 cm. tall; stems reddish, appressed pubescent with short soft white hairs.. Stipules lanceolate-subulate, 3–4 mm. long; leaf-rhachis up to 2 cm. long, including a petiole of 1–2 mm., prolonged 1–2 mm. beyond lateral leaflets; dark filiform stipellae 0.3–1 mm. long sometimes present; leaflets 9–11 in the lower leaves, usually 7 in the leaves subtending inflorescences, elliptic, apiculate, up to 8 mm. long and 3 mm. wide, strigulose on both surfaces.. Racemes pubescent with short white hairs, up to 4 or 5 cm. long, including a peduncle of up to 8 mm.; bracts linear-lanceolate, 1.5 mm. long, caducous; pedicels spreading, 1–1.5 mm. long.. Calyx white strigulose; tube 1 mm. long; lobes subulate, 2–2.4 mm. long.. Corolla white pubescent outside; standard suborbicular, 4 mm. across.. Filaments 4 mm. long.. Ovary 1 mm. long, 2-ovulate; style 3.5 mm. long, curved through 50° 2.5 mm. above the base.. Pod ± 5 mm. long by 1.5 mm. wide, ending in a subulate tip (the persistent style-base), white strigulose, 2-seeded; endocarp hardly spotted.
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