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Inflorescences axillary and falsely terminal, dense and cone-like, 10–15 × 10 mm, ovoid, sessile, scented; pedicels 1–2.5 mm long; bracts tightly imbricate, 5–6 × 5 mm, obliquely ovate, pilose; bracteoles 4 × 2 mm, ovate, pilose, slightly joined at the base, persistent, veined.
Calyx densely pilose, 7–8 mm long, the upper lip of two oblong-lanceolate lobes 7 × 2 mm, joined for half their length, lower lip deeply 3-lobed, the outer lobes 2 × 2 mm, flat, lanceolate, the midlobe 7 × 2.5 mm when flattened out, boat-shaped.
Standard crimson, 9.5 × 9 mm, broadly obovate-quadrate, truncate or concave at the apex and with a densely pilose mucro 2 mm long which continues from the midrib which is densely pilose outside in the upper half; wings and keel crimson.
Stems covered with rather dense erect white hairs above, chestnut-brown and somewhat fissured at the base.
Small shrub with many slender woody unbranched stems to 0.6 m tall.
Ovary 2-ovuled, densely pilose.
Fruit not seen.
